Just for good measure, a footnote to the preceding

Speaking of yellowcake, it appears Bush is becoming radioactive. Even Silvio Berlusconi is backing away slowly, or so this from USA Today would indicate:

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, one of President Bush's strongest supporters over Iraq, says he tried repeatedly to dissuade the American leader from going to war and was never convinced military force was the best way to bring democracy. ...

"I believed that military action should have been avoided," he was quoted as saying. ...

Recently, an initial contingent of 300 soldiers returned home and Berlusconi has said subsequent groups of 300 would come back until the final group of 1,000 returns together.

This was just a couple of days before the head of Italy's intelligence services emphatically

denied that SISMI, Italy's secret service, "ever had a role in the dossier that was supposed to have demonstrated that Iraq was in an advanced phase of possession of enriched uranium,"

according to Enzo Bianco, who chairs an oversight committee on secret services. The committee was reportedly also told that when the IAEA inquired about the documents in January 2003, it was told "those documents didn't come from SISMI, they weren't produced nor supplied by SISMI."

Now, there may well be a lot of CYA going on there, especially since even Italian intelligence fingers a "former SISMI collaborator" as the forger, but that doesn't alter the fact that the Italian government is clearly taking steps to disassociate itself from Bush's War.