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To: Stultis

Why bother? It was obvious Wilson was the leaker to Corn.


16 posted on 07/16/2005 12:56:31 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Corn was quoting Wilson quite early, as I recall:

"Why Trust George W. Bush?", By David Corn, AlterNet. Posted September 13, 2002.

SNIP

On Sept. 11, a friend in Milan wrote me a letter full of anguish: "One year ago, everybody here [in Europe] was with the American people, suffering and sympathizing [with them.] As French president Jacques Chirac put it, we were all Americans, New Yorkers, that day. Can the Bush administration be for one minute aware of the solidarity and sympathy capital it has wasted?...People here are more afraid of George Bush than of Saddam Hussein."

Euro-hyperbole? Perhaps. But on the same day, Joseph Wilson, who was charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad during Desert Shield and the last U.S. official to meet with Saddam, also sent me an email and observed, "It is criminal that the world now fears American jingoism more than Saddam." Bush has tainted a tragedy.

http://democrats.com/search.cfm?term=joseph%20wilson

Iraq: :"By Exploiting 9/11, Bush Scares The World More Than Saddam", 14-Sep-02

David Corn writes that Bush's "obsessive focus on Saddam Hussein, transformed the 9/11 recall-a-thon into a prep session for war. They have exploited a terrible event for their next crusade. And on their watch, the horror of that day has been used not to lessen the distance between America and the rest of the world but to increase it, as other nations recoil from and fear Bush's march to war. [A friend in Europe wrote]: "One year ago, everybody here was with the American people, suffering and sympathizing [with them]... Can the Bush administration be for one minute aware of the solidarity and sympathy capital it has wasted?...People here are more afraid of George Bush than of Saddam Hussein." Euro-hyperbole? Perhaps. But on the same day, Joseph Wilson... the last US official to meet with Saddam, also sent me an email and observed, 'It is criminal that the world now fears American jingoism more than Saddam.' Bush has tainted a tragedy."

Incidentally, the email Corn quotes here doesn't fit Wilson's "nonpartisan" story very well, LOL.

50 posted on 07/16/2005 7:34:57 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Shermy

"Why bother? It was obvious Wilson was the leaker to Corn."
Bingo!


71 posted on 07/19/2005 8:46:49 PM PDT by SisBoombah
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