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.
Matt Cooper is Russert's only guest on Meet the Press tomorrow, and yet I bet there is not one NEW thing learned in that hour...
It will all be directed by Russert to hang it on Rove, and anyone else in the White House he can implicate.
I have been wondering the same thing. What if the SP's target is actually Joe Wilson and/or Valerie Plame? What a shocker to the left loonies that would be!
But what Repubs will really take of their 'nice gloves' and play hardball?
Seems most think that Newt. . Rush. . .David. . .the Repub 'et al' . . can tell the story; while the political big dogs keep what they think is a 'good face'.
There is a real treason going down here; but WHO will make the call that actually counts?
I think no Repub on the Hill. . .or in the White House. . .will dare or for others, bother. . .to go there.
Great article! It seems that is exactly what did happen. David Horowitz has lined up all the facts and it's pretty undeniable.
I hope this comes back and bites them - Plame and Wilson, particularly - really, really hard. Dems usually manage to skate, but Plame and Wilson have perhaps gone a little too far this time.
Can't you just see him walking up to someone at a swanky New York or Paris party and say, "Hello, I am Joe Wilson, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Amb. of Gabon."
and have the person just burst out laughing? Especially if it was a good-looking woman..
I heard that he was dating Plame while still married to his first wife, so I bet he used that line frequently, until he found someone as shallow as he is. LOL
Horowitz rules. It's about time someone stated it so succinctly...Plame and Wilson and traitors who should be jailed.
I second that! (A few others need to be hammered also.)
"think about defending this country instead of its internal enemies."
Well, that is expecting a bit much from the Democrats.
Please, no offense to anybody, but this is ... well, let's just say it's unreasonable. I realize the author is trying to cheer up the base, rally the Republican troops, but his assertions, as I said, are not reasonable.
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Yeah, sure, when Sandy Berger does jail time, and pigs fly out of my butt.
Why not just have a Cooper/Grunwald and Wilson/Plame double-date?
The world isn't "reasonable" any more.
Is it "reasonable" to believe that a teacher, that taught children with disabilities, would just strap a bomb on his back, and blow up a train one day in London? I don't think so, but it happened...
I don't think Horowitz' theory is any less reasonable than the one floated by the MSM, the dems and Joe Wilson.
And, remember Rathergate? Wouldn't you have thought it to be unreasonable that a major news network's anchor would report a story about the POTUS using falsified and forged documents? Sounds unreasonable to me, but it happened...
I understand where you are coming from, but David Horowitz is pretty "in the know" about the goings on in Washington, and among the "elite", as I am sure the Wilson's consider themselves...so, let's just say, until a better explanation comes along...
I won't discount his!
I would love to see a double date on Timmy's show!
And then maybe Timmy could bring out Sandy Berger as a surprise guest!!! LOL
I worked for one of Ratner's companies. Brother of Ellen, owns the Empire State Building and Mall of America as well as the largest lumber wholesale company in the world. Big clinton supporter and was at the WTC on 9/11. David Rox!!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Shhh, He was undercover.
Ping!
Bump
Actually, I think the philosophy has been stated this way:
They indict one of ours, we send two of theirs to the morgue...
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