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.
You said,
"Rove is a master strategist. Still, the White House really shouldn't let him out in public. He's just not that kind of guy."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429250/posts?page=41#41
Don't knock Gabon! You act like it is a banana republic.
But consider their President:
"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (formerly Albert-Bernard Bongo) (born December 30, 1935 in Lewai - now Bongoville) has been the President of Gabon since 1967.
Bongo was elected as vice president in March 1967, alongside the incumbent president, Léon M'ba, and became president himself upon the death of M'ba on November 28, 1967. He converted to Islam in 1973 and changed his name. In the early 1990s, he ended the one-party domination of the Gabonese Democratic Party and allowed multiparty elections in response to popular demand. These elections were held in 1993 and 1998; Bongo won both times, taking 51.2% and 66.6% of the vote respectively. Despite the reforms, it is generally thought that a non-independent judiciary and widespread corruption and patronage limit the ability of citizens to effectively change the government.
In 2003, the constitution was changed to eliminate any restrictions on the number of terms a president can serve; Bongo's critics have accused him of intending to rule for life. The next presidential election is scheduled for 2005.
Bongo's wife is the daughter of Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso. Bongo is also one of the wealthiest heads of state in the world, and this is attributed mainly to oil revenue and corruption."
How bad can a guy be if he wins re-election for nearly 40 years?
Wilson condemned Rove, RWO YEARS AGO, which is TWO YEARS prior to the onslaught of vilification and also PRIOR to Rove's job title change.
There will NOT be a draft. And recruiting is NOT in bad shape at all. The Marines have been and still ARE turning away volunteers.
The president has been saying that this is going to be a long, a VERY long long war, since 9/12/01! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Is that you, Charlie Rangel?
Yes and think of the ones we miss, because we can't possible read every post made on FR, every day. LOL
I gave you a compliments and you're still going on about being "insulted"? Wait.........you don't know what being insulted here is; yet ! LOL
Americans were hit by terrorist attacks all through the Clinton administration until they accumulated on 9/11. The islomofacists called us yellow bellies because Clinton never did anything. He just let good people die.
Those terrorists have been working on the Arab youths for years. It will take a long time to kill them all off or imprison them for life. The islamofacists have been breeding around the globe like cockroaches.
That did it! I'm putting you on still another list! Now there!
Yes, *gag* she and Cooper procreated. :-(
You said,
"This has to be the fastest kiss-off of a voting bloc in world history. Not one week since the election and Rove pretty much says "Thank you very much now go home" to the country's pro-life movement."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274781/posts?page=38#38
Graham said: "We will lose this war if we leave too soon."
You said,
"That's silly. Technically, the war is over and has been for a long time. We're into the occupation, pacification, and reconstruction periods now -- and the insane thing is that we're trying to do all three at the same time.
Has that ever been tried before? Has anyone ever succeeded in doing it?"
"It's a no-fault war, like a no-fault car accident. Neither driver was paying attention."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430033/posts?page=17#17
Carter let our men rot, Reagan pulled out of Lebanon, Clinton you took care of. Of course they saw America as paper tigers.
And the rest of your post was spot on. :-)
git = hit
Yes, their DNA is out among us. Ulk!!!
Unfortunately. :-(
She's obviously not only bereft of any historical knowledge, but is a damned toll!
Amen. ((((((shudders))))))
The visual of them procreating.......
BTT
Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg! Now I'll have nightmares. :-(
He was also ambassador to Iraq.
Someday I will ask someone to explain the whole Grand Jury system to me, but for now I would be happy if you could answer another question.
I remember that France was behind the false documents re Niger and uranium. This thread for example:
I also have a vague recollection of new documents about a real Iraq-Niger connection, but I don't remember any solid evidence that France was involved. Have you got any links?
I know, how can one doubt France being involved in any shady deals in the Middle East?
France is like Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany pre WWI - always on the make, trying to stir up troubles.
ScaniaBoy
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