I suppose there will always be room for dead-end Bush supporters to continue to claim that Saddam tried to acquire uranium ore from Niger, since they never have to base their claims on any actual facts. But after Wilson's NY Times rebuttal to Bush's "16 words" statement in the the State of the Union address, even the Bush administration itself admitted that the statement about yellowcake was wrong. Consider the following:

Ari Fleischer: "Now, we've long acknowledged -- and this is old news, we've said this repeatedly -- that the information on yellow cake did, indeed, turn out to be incorrect."

Condoleeza Rice: "What we've said subsequently is, knowing what we now know, that some of the Niger documents were apparently forged, we wouldn't have put this in the President's speech -- but that's knowing what we know now."

So it seems like a huge stretch to say that "Joe Wilson lied." And to try to bolster that claim with a sleazy and dishonest bit of sleight-of-hand that tries to present a 15-year-old sealed stockpile of uranium as though it might have been acquired after the first gulf war (and thereby have anything at all to do with Wilson's mission) is nothing short of contemptible. Shame on Christopher Merola for trying to mislead people about this matter, and shame on you for going along with the dishonesty.