So Italy Helped Bake the "Niger Yellow Cake" for Bush

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo discusses it as do several other of the blogs.

But where's the surprise? We heard from spring 2003 if not sooner, well before the outing of Plame, that Italy was tied into the documents and the documents had no integrity. In fact, some experts said as far back as then that these were very likely forged and smacked specifically of an Italian hand, with a bit of implication that someone in the US might be dictating.

In other words - for the Fox crowd - Bush didn't write the fake documents himself, he had his friend and fellow royal bully autocrat, Silvio Berlusconi (Italian prime minister), forge them instead. Italy's a good place for that because he owns and controls a nice big chunk of the media, which is also sorta like here.