“After meeting with dozens of former and current government officials and people involved in the uranium business in Niger, [former Ambassador Joseph] Wilson wrote in the [New York] Times [on July 6, 2003], ‘it did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction [for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq] had ever taken place.’… Judging that the [Bush] administration knew full well that the uranium information was ‘erroneous’ if it referred specifically to Niger, Wilson suggested that the administration had selectively used it along with other intelligence ‘to bolster a decision’ to go to war that had already been made, and that the use of weapons of mass destruction was a ‘cover’ for some other reason to invade Iraq.”
– Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, Page 167