Lando 
Posted on 07/17/2004 6:35:46 AM PDT by Pokey78
re: Wilson outed his wife to Novak?? Has that been confirmed? In understood her name was mentioned not to out her, but to legitimately question the source of the report.
It just DUMBfounds me too see the Rat side of life support known liars such as Clinton, Moore, Clarke, Wilson yet jump up and down that BUSH lied yet can't pin a thing on him?
Call me CrAzY.....
Correction. The shows are sent down the net live. Local stations may opt to show them later. It is rare when segments are pre-taped....as was Colin Powell's palm tree segment a few weeks ago.
Another Steyn out of the ball park hit. Go Mark!
Oh, that we could get this into the hands--no, make that the minds--of every voter in the US.
vaudine
**Major Wanke's prime minister, among others, told Ambassador Wilson that he believed Iraq wanted yellowcake. And Ambassador Wilson told the CIA. And the CIA's report agreed with the British and the Europeans that "Iraq was attempting to procure uranium from Africa."
**In his ludicrously vain memoir The Politics Of Truth, Wilson plays up his knowledge of the country. He makes much of his intimacy with Wanke and gives himself the credit for ridding Niger of the Wanke regime. The question then is why a man who knew so much about what was going on chose deliberately to misrepresent it to all his media/ Democrat buddies, not to mention to the American people. For a book called The Politics Of Truth, it's remarkably short of it. On page 2, Wilson says of his trip to Niger: "I had found nothing to substantiate the rumors." But he had. **
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Ambassador Wilson went to Niger in 2002, came back and told the CIA in 2002 that Iraq HAD attempted to buy yellow cake. Then he wrote an Op-ed published in the New York Times in June 2003 stating that President Bush lied when he said the famous 16 words in the January 2003 State of the Union speech, because he found NO evidence that Iraq had attempted to buy yellowcake in Niger.
It really does not take a conspiracy theorist to see that between January and June of 2003 someone approached ol' Amb Wilson and made him an offer he wouldn't refuse. I will never believe that he decided to go public with testimony that was 180° opposite to his OWN report to the CIA without external persuasion.
It had to be bribe or threat. He is such a slime ball that a hint of an invitation to the Hillary circle might have been enough.
Have you contacted any media to get the REST OF THE STORY out?? I am contacting Seattle Times today about this article.
Since we now all know that a memo exists from Valerie Plame recommending her husband for the assignment, and Novak's column referred to a Bush Administration official as the source of her name, I'm wondering if it isn't possible that someone at the CIA outted her to Novak. The CIA was being fingered for alot of intelligence failures. This was just another one. But perhaps someone at the CIA was a little tired of the organization being the scapegoat, and decided to advance the tidbit that eventually brought Wilson down.
They are very sensitive to that word, and have tried everything they know how to do, to pin that label on President Bush. Unfortunately for them, he is one of the most principled men to have held the office of the president.
Lying is a normal tactic for them so they simply cannot believe that W doesn't lie.
Kind of makes you want to laugh when these papers/news networks claim they have to have more than one verifiable source in order to print a story.
I am assuming that's why all (of them) suckered have fallen silent, too
makes sense.
Lando
Steyn nailed this one !
I guess you're right. I also thought the tense of "they've previously" was strained; I thought the past perfect would be better. I retract my criticism. Thanks.
From your link of the editorial on 23 October 2003:
Wilson also acknowledged that he has been advising Kerry on foreign policy for about five months. Yes, that would put it before Wilson started criticizing President Bush for the line in his State of the Union message about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger for use in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. (Wilson was the one sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate the charge, but insists he found no evidence of same.)
So this slimeball has been used by the Kerry/Kennedy Mass Dem machine.
I believe that the Kerry campaign was behind the whole smear, not from the beginning, but starting with Joe Wilson. The Bush lied campaign was started in March, with the hullabaloo over the forged Italian documents, but it got very little traction, until Chris Lehane got a hold of Joe Wilson. And then the whole thing just escalated from there, including the accusation about outing Wilson's CIA wife.
Where did you getthat conclusion from? I have not heard this, I thought it was still under unvestigation. Please share your source.
At least I'm assuming that's why the New York Times, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, and PBS drone Bill Moyers (along with all the other media bigwigs Joseph C. Wilson IV suckered) have fallen silent on the subject of the white knight of integrity to whom they've previously given the hold-the-front-page treatment, too.
Given Steyn's prolific, high-quality prose sprinkled with facts that make his point obvious (like that bit about cowpeas), I'm more than willing to forgive the occasional glarp. The man's a genius. It's humbling to read his work.
Still, an ennumerated list of Joe's lies with sources would have been more powerful, thus making both the charges and Wilson's mendacity unmistakable.
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