Joseph Wilson to ACLU Audience: "Be Very, Very Afraid."

Village Voice ^ | July 27, 2004 | Kareem Fahim

[Shermy]

Joseph Wilson to ACLU Audience: "Be Very, Very Afraid."

Former ambassador livid over Senate "ambush." Arab Americans, way past angry, play along

BOSTON—"A funny thing happened to me on the way to Boston," said former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who famously didn’t find any evidence that Saddam Hussein was buying uranium from Nigeria. "Valerie and I were ambushed."

Wilson, speaking today at a Marriott luncheon hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Arab-American Institute (AAI), spent the great bulk of his allotted time railing against the "partisan smear campaign" directed at him and his wife, Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative whose name was leaked to columnist Robert Novak last year. The "ambush" came in the findings of a report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 7, which, among other things, suggests that Wilson's wife got him the job in Nigeria, and that Saddam Hussein might actually have been looking for uranium in Nigeria. Wilson denies both charges.

"Where is the hue and cry?" Wilson asked his audience, referring to the deceptions of the Bush administration. He added that what the government had done to Plame and Wilson was a cautionary tale to other whistle-blowers. "Be afraid," he intoned, solemnly. "Be very, very afraid." He got a standing ovation.

The theme of the luncheon was "Reclaiming America: Liberty and Global Responsibility." Ostensibly, it focused on the only concessions Arab Americans are likely to wrestle from the Democrats this year—a focus on civil liberties, and a pledge to make the U.S a better global citizen. Clinton led that charge on the convention floor last night. "We can't kill, arrest, or occupy all our potential adversaries," he said. He got a standing ovation, too.

But for Arab Americans, the parts of the Democratic platform that refer to the Middle East may as well have been written by Republicans. Pollster John Zogby, who shared the dais with Wilson, along with Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman John Conyers, said that "on the war in Iraq . . . and the policy for Israel and Palestine, there is no difference" between the two parties. But he called civil liberties and the Patriot Act a huge issue in this year's "Armageddon election," and suggested this was a place where the Dems would find common ground with conservatives and libertarians.

[Shermy]

Ping.

[Howlin]

I'm sick of this guy!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"BOSTON—"A funny thing happened to me on the way to Boston," said former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who famously didn’t find any evidence that Saddam Hussein was buying uranium from Nigeria. "Valerie and I (got caught)"

[Shermy]

"Former ambassador livid over Senate "ambush." Arab Americans, way past angry, play along"

In his way I think this journalist doesn't think much of Joe either.

[the Real fifi]

Funny, Kerry has put as much space between him and this lying S.O.B.--even scrubbing all the Wilson pp from his website and yet Wilson is still playing the martyr...I wonder whyhe wasn't an honored guest at the Dem Convention? LOL

[Tamzee]

a Marriott luncheon hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Arab-American Institute (AAI)

With a menu that consisted solely of Kool-Aid.

[Shermy]

"Be afraid," he intoned, solemnly. "Be very, very afraid."

Joe's was so afraid he put his wife in Vanity Fair!

[xzins]

Be afraid of what?

He's at a "luncheon" eating caviar and prime rib and speaking at a microphone to a drink-guzzling crowd. He's driving home in his secret agent convertible, and he's watching TV and going to sleep comfortably every night.

The man is in ZERO danger!

What a nimrod!

Must be an ABSOLUTELY AWFUL thing for him to contemplate that someone PROVED him incompetent and a liar.

Be AFRAID....he says.

Why?

Because there are those seeking the truth, and when they find it, they ACTUALLY REPORT IT!

Oh...say it ain't so!

[prophetic]

as usual the radical Left's speech: FEAR, FEAR AND MORE FEAR!!

Didnt you know that Bush's policies will cause the Sun to go supernova and kill everything in our galaxy!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

See we told you so...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You lied, Joe.

[sinkspur]

Pollster John Zogby, who shared the dais with Wilson, along with Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman John Conyers, said that "on the war in Iraq . . . and the policy for Israel and Palestine, there is no difference" between the two parties. But he called civil liberties and the Patriot Act a huge issue in this year's "Armageddon election," and suggested this was a place where the Dems would find common ground with conservatives and libertarians.

So Zogby's sharing a stage with rabid Democrats?

So much for his objectivity, if, indeed, he ever had any.

[Thebaddog]

Check it out! Zogby the pollster was on the dais with all those raging liberals. How could you ever trust his polling again?

[OldFriend]

The agenda continues, truth be damned. National security be damned too for this kerry hack.

He is seeing his future slipping down the drain and is lashing out.

[Diogenesis]

KNOW THEM BY THEIR WORDS:

Pollster John Zogby, who shared the dais with Wilson,
along with Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman John Conyers,
said that "on the war in Iraq . . . and the policy for Israel and
Palestine, there is no difference" between the two parties."

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PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

[dirtboy]

The "ambush" came in the findings of a report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 7, which, among other things, suggests that Wilson's wife got him the job in Nigeria, and that Saddam Hussein might actually have been looking for uranium in Nigeria. Wilson denies both charges.

Funny, Joe, the 9-11 Commission came to the same conclusions. I guess they were in on the ambush as well.

[agere_contra]

I really don't want to derail this thread on how immense a tosser Wilson is. But can someone (briefly) tell me what Kool-Aid is, and why the dems drink a lot of it?

[jpl]

I'm starting to think this loser is gearing up to run for office at some point in the future. The problem is that he's no Bill Clinton, the "VRWC" thing isn't going to work for him quite so well.

[RexBeach]

If these boobs hate the Patriot Act so much, why don't they encourage their friends in congress to repeal it?

BTW, how many of you know of anyone whose life has been changed by the Patriot Act? Mine seems substantially the same. What's the big deal?

[cyncooper]

Thanks for the ping Shermy.

Pinging Ella to this:

Pollster John Zogby, who shared the dais with Wilson, along with Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman John Conyers...