X Misses The Spot

Five years into the "Sweets and Flowers" festival in Iraq, Craig Unger reviews the crunchy cluster that got the party started in the first place.

"X seems to suggest that all this could have been the result of mere ineptitude. However, I cite, on the record, no fewer than nine former officials in the military and intelligence worlds who characterize the Niger document episode as black propaganda or part of a disinformation campaign that was intentionally done to mislead the American people into supporting a war."