“On at least fourteen different occasions prior to the [January 28] 2003 State of the Union, analysts at the CIA, the State Department, and other government agencies who had examined the Niger documents [claiming Saddam sought to purchase yellowcake uranium from them] or reports about them raised serious doubts about their legitimacy. Yet somehow a reference to the Niger yellowcake deal–a complete fiction, the product of a forgery–had ended up as a vital part of one of the most important State of the Union Addresses in modern history.”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 273