Wilson was right; Bush was wrong.

Booman of Booman Tribune presents the case to date on the accuracy of the famed "16 words in the State of the Union Speech." The currently revealed evidence clearly shows that the Intelligence Community knew that there was no attempt by Iraq to buy yellow-cake uranium from Niger, and that the White House (including Condoleeza Rice and Steven Hadley) clearly understood that, discounted the evidence, and used the story as truth anyway.

"Four U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge said in interviews that [a National Intelligence Council] memo...[that stated unequivocally that the Niger allegations were groundless] arrived at the White House as Bush and his highest-ranking advisers made the uranium story a centerpiece of their case for the rapidly approaching war against Iraq.

And they went ahead and kept the uranium as the centerpiece of their case.

One obvious conclusion here is that then CIA Chief, Tenet, was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his actions taking responsibility for letting the 16 words into the SOTU speech when, in fact, the fault was that of the White House. Condi Rice's award was the job of Secretary of State. Steven Hadley's award was Condi's old job, National Security Advisor.