Bush knew

This Murray Waas story in National Journal says W knew, when he cited in his 2003 SOTU those aluminum tubes Iraq had tried to buy, that whether they were intended for nuclear arms centrifuges was disputed. Apparently the news hook is that Karl Rove tried to cover up the fact that W knew until after the election. But we recall watching that speech and thinking, that's bullshit!, when he mentioned the tubes. So it had been reported at least somewhere that they were more likely conventional rocket bodies.