The `Plame' Truth: That Joe Wilson Lied

Boston Herald ^ | Sunday, July 18, 2004 | Boston Herald Editorial Staff

[Wristpin]

There's more to the DNC strategy: Imagine 160,000 troops returning to the US with out invading. Can you hear the talking points.

Another 30-45 day delay and the invasion would have been impossible until the fall of 2003. Once June hits the Gulf becomes the hottest region on earth. Humid too. Our troops would not be able to carry enough water to ensure human survival wearing chem suits in 130 degree temperatures.

We needed to be in Baghdad with bases set up before the Iraqi summer.

[ozzymandus]

Wilson has been proven a totally partisan liar, but don't look for the RAT lapdog media to ever acknowledge this simple fact. One of the worst things about our country is that this sort of treason is never punished.

[Bonaparte]

Was Wilson put under oath?

[DianeDePoitiers]

A look into Joseph Wilson's background shows that he has some rather provocative connections.

Joseph Wilson is listed as an Adjunct Scholar with the Middle East Institute – which advocates for Saudi interests and which has as officers such stalwart friends of Saudi Arabia as former Ambassadors Richard Murphy, Wyche Fowler (the chairman of the Institute), David L. Mack (the senior vice-president of the Institute), and Edward S. Walker (the president of the Institute). The March 1, 2002 issue of the Saudi government-weekly Ain-Al Yaqeen lists the MEI as an "Islamic research institute supported by the Kingdom."

Joel Mowbray in his book "Dangerous Diplomacy" has characterized the Middle East Institute as feeding "from the Saudi trough..." it is "filled with former State Department officials who were cozy with the House of Saud while at Foggy Bottom."

Joseph Wilson also is listed as a Strategic Advisor for Rock Creek Corporation. Rock Creek Corporation is listed on the Saudi.net page (www.the-saudi.net/business-center/links-usa.htm) as a firm doing business with Saudi Arabia.

[Eva]

HERE is a link to an old Boston Herald editorial (10/03) that discusses the fact that Joe Wilson was working for the Kerry campaign at the time the "Bush Lied" campaign was begun. Chris Lehane, the infamous campaign dirty trickster was behind the whole thing. Please help me demand that Kerry apologize for this slanderous lie.

[Peach]

Kerry will be busy trying to get that shoe out of his mouth very soon. LOL

[Eva]

Not if we wait for the press to pick up on it.

[Freee-dame]

PravadABDNC is in full Rat mode and will NEVER report the TRUTH on this.

You are so right. AP has already figured out a spin that puts the blame on President Bush. The following is from the KEN GUGGENHEIM AP article you get when you log onto AOL. The bold face is mine. I am waiting to see how many times I see repudiation used in articles tomorrow. It is not a word generally used (a la gravitas?) Nowhere in the article does it say that Wilson lied or that the White House had been under relentless attack about using "the 16 words" before they finally came out with some backtracking. Now AP is attacking the White House for repudiating the 16 words when their assertion was correct after all.

"It was one of the first signs that the intelligence used to go to war in Iraq was wrong: White House repudiation of 16 words in last year's State of the Union speech that had suggested Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium in Africa.".................

"The White House's repudiation came after The New York Times published an op-ed column by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was sent by the CIA to Niger to determine if Iraq had been acquiring uranium. Wilson said it was unlikely any uranium transaction had taken place and the administration appeared to have been manipulating the intelligence."

[ontos-on]

Of course, that was true. When we used to have reporters or even news analysts, there would be comprehension of facts like these. Also,why can't there be a reminder that the French & Russians were trying to stop us and were using the negotiating process to do so. Why do they let that feckless wimp Kerry carry on about how Bush screwed up "our relations with Europe" and that through diplomacy he would not get them mad and everything will be fine.

That is the most inane claim possible. When you decide and lead, you go in one direction rather than another. The guys who don't like wha t you do will be pissed and in some cases will try to continue their opposition by other means. Kerry wailing about the international community does not respect us is gibberish. What he really is saying is that they dont love us. They respect the hell out of us, but of course, wont admit that. Some things are so obvious that they still have to be said.

[Just mythoughts]

"There is obviously a plan behind this pattern."

Joe Wilson does have an interesting history and contacts.

Does JFKerry and Ramsey Clark still maintain contact?

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks.

Our own energy policies have given the Saudis power. Liberals claim they want energy independence, however, their kind of energy independence places this nation in a bind.

While I take issue with what the Saudis do, they are not first in line for accountability, liberals in this nation have given them a "green" light.


The liberal ideal world was stated under the Clinton foreign policy "EQUALIZE ALL NATIONS".