[eyespysomething]

I found this googling earlier, Wilson says Hussein has a will use WMD, and this is after his Niger trip:

FORMER DIPLOMAT TO GIVE VIEWS ON POSSIBLE WAR WITH IRAQ AT UCSB, January 14, 2003

"Our message to Saddam can be simple," he said. "You are going to lose your weapons-of-mass-destruction capability either through inspections or through a sustained cruise-missile assault. If you rebuild them, we will attack again. And if you use weapons of mass destruction or attack another country, we will destroy you and your regime. The decision to live or die then becomes his to make."

"The ultimate lesson of the gulf war may be that when offered the choice, Saddam will sacrifice almost everything before sacrificing his own life or grip on power," Wilson said.

[Fedora]

That's really interesting :-)

[okie01]

"Our message to Saddam can be simple," he said. "You are going to lose your weapons-of-mass-destruction capability either through inspections or through a sustained cruise-missile assault. If you rebuild them, we will attack again. And if you use weapons of mass destruction or attack another country, we will destroy you and your regime. The decision to live or die then becomes his to make." Joseph C. Wilson, UCSB, January 14, 2003

Interesting that this bellicose model of Joseph C. Wilson comes a.) after his trip to Niger and, yet, b.) precedes "What I Didn't Find In Africa" on the NYT op-ed page.

So, in January, 2003 Wilson just knew Saddam had WMD and was all for kicking butt in Iraq. By, by May, 2003, he's breakfasting with Nicholas Kristof and speaking on "deep background" about the lack of a firm foundation for Bush's SOTU.

Why caused this 180, I wonder...