[Izzy Dunne]

apparently for no reason.

reason?

REASON?

We don't need no steenkin' reason!

[woofie]

I was out of the country when this clown had his 15 minutes, I never have gotten it straight.

[coloradan]

On this subject, can anyone point me to evidence that Plame was outed before the Novak column? I know her name was listed on his bio at the Middle East Institute website, but is that really an outing?

[The South Texan]

We need some Baghdad Bob pics! They just are too funny to look at.

[Dr. Frank fan]

This would explain something that had been bothering me. When I first heard about his book, the news said that the book would be titled What I Didn't Find In Niger, after his initial op-ed on his little trip. But more recently I heard that the title would be The Politics Of Truth for some reason. I heard that and wondered why the change.

I guess now we know the reason, he knows how stupid "what I didn't find" would make him sound if it was really there.

[Shermy]

Wilson did not get the Iraqi's name in 2002, but he writes that he talked to his source again four months ago,

Interesting, why would he talk to this Niger official again? Perhaps Wilson is still pursuing approval for a gold mining venture with the Niger govt.???

From the VF article:

"..After only one year in the job Wilson decided to retire and go into the private sector because "we wanted to have kids, and felt that it had become very difficult to live off two government salaries." He set up a consultancy, J. C. Wilson International Ventures, with an office in downtown Washington at the headquarters of the Rock Creek Corporation, an investment firm of which little is known. Wilson's right-wing critics have been quick to condemn the affiliation as "murky," though Wilson does not work for Rock Creek and merely rents space and facilities there.

"I have a number of clients, and basically we help them with their sort of investments in countries like Niger," explains Wilson. "Niger was of some interest because it has some gold deposits coming onstream. We had some clients who were interested in gold.... We were looking to set up a gold-mine company out of London."

BTW, does anyone know if Wilson discusses his work with the Kerry campaign???

Joseph Wilson, Niger, Uranium and Bush’s Famous Sixteen Words: Evolution of a Confused Story

[okie01]

Ping-a-ling.

[Shermy]

when he purportedly said Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger?

Wilson never uses Bush's word "sought". He carefully uses the word "bought".

[Salvation]

**It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade--an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium. . . . **

And the way Bagdad Bob lied, who would believe this?

[AngryJawa]

Isn't Baghdad Bob walking around as a free man today, flapping his lying pie hole on al Arabia or some such?

[VOA]

bump

[piasa]

So... does Baghdad Bob look a lot like Nadhim Jabouri?

[mewzilla]

Paging Timmy Russert....