Posted on 07/16/2005 8:20:46 PM PDT by DaveTesla
So now we know a lot of the facts. In the midst of a war, a rogue CIA employee named Valerie Plame set out to sabotage the President's war policy -- a policy ratified by both political parties and both houses of Congress. To do this she sent her husband on a mission to Niger to discredit the President's statement that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium there -- in other words to discredit a justification for the war in which Americans were continuing to die. Forget for a moment the treasonous nature of an action designed to undermine a duly arrived at war policy and to destroy the credibility of the commander-in-chief while this nation's soldiers were in harm's way. The mere act of sending a relative on a mission like this was illegal under existing statutes for someone in Plame's position.
Her husband, Joseph Wilson, went off to Niger, did no investigation and came back and lied about what he had allegedly discovered. The bi-partisan 9/11 commission concluded that Wilson's claims were false -- a year and half after the damage the Plame-Wilson team intended was already done.
The Plame-Wilson lie was designed to make the President look like a liar and the nation's democratically and legally arrived at war policy a fraud. This came right at the climax of anti-war primary campaign of Howard Dean in July 2003, just three months after the fall of Baghdad and when the terrorist counter-attack had already begun.
Immediately the Democratic Party leadership jumped on the President calling him a liar and a fraud using the 16 words in the January 2003 State of the Union address about Niger as evidence. These 16 words were perfectly true than (as now) yet that didn't stop Democrats from using the Plame-Wilson lies to undermine the authority of the commander-in-chief in the eyes of the American people and before the entire world. No psychological warfare campaign ever conducted by an enemy against the United States has been as effetive as this one.
It emboldened our terrorist enemies, and sowed distrust in Europe and throughout the world about American policies, continued for more than six months with of course the megaphone provided by the NY Times and other Bush-hating and America bashing media institutions.
Joseph Wilson threw fuel on the fire by falsely claiming that Vice President Cheney had sent him and not his treacherous anti-Bush wife in her attempt to protect Saddam Hussein and his monster regime. NDavid Corn of the Saddam- and terrorist-sympathizing Nation and other journalists in the opposition press jumped on the story and projected the treacherous activities of Wilson and Plame onto the Bush Administration which was still trying to carry on an anti-terrorist war in the Middle East.
Corn was the first to suggest that outing Plame as a rogue CIA employee was itself treason and certainly against the law. It was not. Plame is not a cover CIA operative and besides and all its Democrat friends in Congress opposed the law protecting CIA agents and protected and even lionized the rogue CIA agent Philip Agee whose leaks of the names of covert CIA agents had gotten one agent killed and was responsible for the enactment of the law. The Nation also has been in the forefront of the fawners at the feet of liar Joseph Wilson giving him a dinner and award for his treachery. (Working against your own government in time of war, while in the employ of your government is by definition treachery.) In other words The Nation is entirely consistent: it will protect those CIA agents (Agee, Plame) who are enemies of the United States or its policies, and and only those agents.
Democrats will of course mentally dissociate themselves from acts of conscious treachery. And many of them have reason to do so. Unlike the Nation radicals, they are not rooting for our enemies to win. On the other hand, over and over in this war they have shown that they are prepared to win elections even at the cost of American defeats in the war on terror -- which as we can easily caculate may cost 100,000 American lives at a blow. Or as the President once put it to Tom Daschle, they are a party who will put their partisan interests above the security of 300 million Americans.
In a synchronity that all honest liberals should pay attention to, an appeals court has found that no torture or illegality took place at Guantanamo and that the legal campaign led by communist supporter Michael Ratner in behalf of the Guantanamo terrorists is based on an even bigger lie than the Plame-Wilson sabotage. In this assault on the war on terror from behind our lines the Democratic Party is also a willing and essential accomplice.
It's time for the Democrats to stop their sabotage of the war on terror. It's time for them to put away the witch-hunt against Karl Rove and Homeland Security, and to begin finally to think about defending this country instead of its internal enemies.
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Comparing the press reaction to Sandy Berger and their reaction to this pretty much confirms what we already know. After all, the Berger incident is much worse.
If THAT was a "defense" we can expect to see the bastard strung up within the week.
Gabon? What's that? Where's that? Maybe I'm geographically challenged but I never heard of that place in my life. Sounds dumb, also.
Wilson must rate pretty low to get assigned to Gabon. Ain't exactly like landing a plum ambassadorship like the Court of St. James.
"So we have a cabal of rogue CIA officers setting up a fake operation for the purpose of throwing an American election. So far no one in the press has been the least bit curious about that fact."
Somebody is giving them their marching orders. Note if liberals in Congress did not approve of their deeds they would be screaming to high heaven, since they are not they most likely are giving the orders.
The liberals in the Senate did everything but suit up with Saddam's gangs and thugs to protect him.
Now, here's another goody for you to mull over. Wilson was a BIG Gore supporter and henchman, he went directly to Kerry, with money, time, and info, when he came back from Niger; he and his wife both. Wilson expected, we can all assume, that "when" Kerry was elected, he would get a REALLY cushy job and/or his businesses would profit from being an "insider".
This entire mess, has been a setup, from start to finish !
I didn't know Coooper was married to Mandy Greenwald. She was the ugliest person connected to that wole hideous Administration. Yuck.
Now THAT is a HOWLER. Great.
Agreed! Was thinking the Wilsons might be two candidates for the Clinton list of folks six feet under!
Looks like we have several candidates on this thread. We should make it a weekly award!
The military said they didn't need anymore troops. They'll probably start reducing sometime in 2006. They're just waiting for the Iraqi training to finish. The Iraqi's are getting pretty angry at the terrorists, because now the islamofacists are attacking their children.
Good question. Chicken? or Egg?
They are both committed Gore/Kerry people, he's eaten up with Saudi money. As I said in a later post the CIA has made a practice of leaking to the press in an effort to undermine both Bush and the war.
Although, when we say that "CIA" has made a habit of leaking, maybe we are talking about Plame/Wilson.
Tenet didn't know anything about his trip.
CIA's WMD people seem remarkably incurious about French uranium smuggling. Are they incompetent, or has Saudi influence colored their view of the subject, or have their domestic political loyalties left them unable to do their jobs?
Or, again, when we talk about CIA's incompetence and lack of interest in what ought to be very interesting, maybe we are again talking about Plame/Wilson.
And Mandy is a good friend of Hillary's. Hillary even threw a baby shower for her. Isn't that special?
And I hear she and the hildabeast run in the same circles...
Exactly! Decided a couple of weeks ago to start calling some of these people on their remarks. It is obvious this person is not here because she supports Conservatives -- not with a statement like she made. I swear it sounded like some of the RAT Talking Points.
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