FT.com / World

This was something I thought people should read. Wonder if this will ever make it into main stream media...

A UK government inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq is expected to conclude that Britain's spies were correct to say that Saddam Hussein's regime sought to buy uranium from Niger.

The inquiry by Lord Butler, which was delivered to the printers on Wednesday and is expected to be released on July 14...

...Among Lord Butler's other areas of investigation was the issue of whether Iraq sought to buy uranium from Niger. People with knowledge of the report said Lord Butler has concluded that this claim was reasonable and consistent with the intelligence.

Basically the article says that there is in fact solid evidence to support the claim made in Bush's State of the Union speech was in fact truthful. It said that though the quote was primarily derived from forged documents:

The UK government has remained adamant that negotiations over sales did take place and that the fake documents were not part of the intelligence material it had gathered to underpin its claim.

For quite some time the statement in Bush's speech was basis for claims that The President Lied, and that This claim was a major selling point for the war. What will these claims mean if in fact this evidence does support this (and the story quite conclusively states this fact)?