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.
Also, I think it is interesting that Fitzgerald comes from the Southern District of NY. That's the office invetigating Clintons. I am telling you. She will not run.
Do you have faith in the investigation being conducted by the Special Prosecutor, Fitzgerald? I mean, will his conclusions count as a better explanation?
Basically, I'm just waiting for the investigation to end, the report to be released, and any indictment(s) to be issued. Until then, I feel that people on all sides in the media are just huffing and puffing -- and spinning. Which, of course, is how they make their money.
They are the truth which you and members of the left are about to find out. You should have read the Intelligence Committee report before making such a statement. Thanks for telling us your agenda on here. Add another one to the list!
BTW, Horowitz never writes something to make the base happy. Since when were we down about this -- liberals and RATs are about to get egg all over their face because Rove never was a target as the RATs and their compadres in the media are finding out.
I'm thinking that one of the reasons that Schumer had that press conference with Wilson on Thursday, asking for Rove's security clearance to be taken away, and forced to quit if he is the "leaker", is because by making such a big deal about this...
IF the Grand Jury does come down with indictments against Wilson and Plame, Wilson and Schumer will go back to the press and say that NOW Bush's Justice Department is punishing Wilson yet again, for coming forward and asking for Rove's resignation...
They have set this up, so that THEY will be be the victims still, instead of the United States people, and the CIC, George Bush.
He was such a wimp he had someone else approach the trailer trash for him.
As time goes on, the more skeptical I am about this being a fair and impartial grand jury. I think we have to be prepared to fight and fight hard for this presidency one the final report comes out. No surrender.
Bookmark for repeated enjoyment.
That's what happens when you get someone on here that is not a Conservative nor a Republican Conservative from that statement.
I am a member of the base and I am certainly not down -- cannot wait for all the facts to come out and see the RATs running for cover. Rove is not a target of the investigation so who is Miller protecting -- Wilson and/or his wife perhaps? Or someone from the Clinton side like Grunwald?
You are right about how "WE" would have to fight hard, if the grand jury doesn't do what it should...
because we KNOW that the MSM will NOT go after the Wilson's or their own compadres for what really happened.
This could end up being just another Sandy Berger case...and, just like the Clinton's nothing will happen to them.
So far, Kit Bond is the only Congresscritter (maybe Tom Delay), that has gotten angry about this...which doesn't bode well for them to want to get to the bottom of this, if it ends like the Sandy Berger case.
LOL! Well, that didn't take long. Also add me to the list of people who are just going to wait for the investigation to be completed.
Relax -- Bush's presidency is not in danger. Cheney's vice presidency is not in danger.
What David has laid out, is circumspect, to say the least, and nonimfamatroy.The base doesn't NEED to be "rallied", since none of us are downtrodden by the Dems'/MSM's attempt to take Rove down and smear the president with this hoax, is making all of us scream with laughter.
I suggest that you go back to DU; you've failed in your mission here.
There needs to be a test to pass, before anyone can join/ stay on FR and the sooner, the better!
The building is the KGB HQ in Moscow.
But your stay here is; DUgirl.
Thought you would enjoy! Must be something in the water recently.
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