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Remember this?

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

This week at TPMCafe, we've got the inside story of how these sixteen words went from a forged Italian letter to the President of the United States' State of the Union. Peter Eisner and Knut Royce, co-authors of The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq, are joining us at TPMCafe's Table for One to share the story.