Imagine. Two such shocks in less than a year!!
Kerry Concedes.
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.
LOL! Not much of a cover driving a plutocrat car like that.
Hillary HAS to run,so as to not be indicted if they find something. NO ONE will ever indict a Presidential candidate....short of murder with witnesses.
Whilst there, Wilson, in his own words, sat around drinking tea with a few old pals, came back home, wrote a worthless report for the CIA,wrote a Bush-bashing op-ed for the N.Y. Times, wrote a book to discredit the president his administration, Tony Blair and his people ( including England's spy team ), went to work for John F'in Kerry, and has spent the last two years going on T.V. to try to bring down President Bush.
Okay, now tell me, again, WHY are you "standing up" for this guy.
Well, at least here, it appears I'm the only one! Since I'm on the east coast and it's getting late, let me just say (1)personally, I'll wait for Fitzgerald to finish his investigation; (2) the Bush presidency is in no danger -- there's no reason for impeachment and no way any trumped up charges would make it through the House; and (3)put me on any list you want, but I still think Horowitz is not being reasonable here.
I'm almost at a loss for words. LOL
Maybe they don't get enough fiber. :-)
Yep. If she doesn't cover for them, she'll be getting a visit from the Arkansas Chinese mafia. The left has invested a LOT in these scams, so if someone ruins it, they'll bring down the entire democrat party with them. They're as good as dead.
LOL...maybe they should try some prunes. :-)
Obviously, you have NO idea WHO David Horowtiz is. Pity that.;^)
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Imagine. Two such shocks in less than a year!!
Kerry Concedes.
You don't think this is a bit exaggerrated?
"They indict one of ours, then we indict one of theirs."
...then we indict at least two of theirs!
Call me crazy, but I think it wouldn't hurt for them to have a Karl Rove PR campaign. Hear me out. WE know that he's a decent and honorable man, but most of the public only knows what they see in the MSM. How about a few stories about Karl's background, interviews with family and friends talking about what a great guy he is, press releases of him visiting troops, even. Humanize him, in other words. It's a lot harder to think the worst of somebody you like than somebody you don't like.
It's fine to let the grand jury take its course (although I'm skeptical about it being impartial). But this battle is fought on many fronts, and one of them is public relations. Couldn't hurt.
lol, v good v good
Some sure do seem to have a constipated attitude.
Do you know who David Horowitz is? His background and transformation from radical leftist from the Viet Nam days, makes his comments not only perfectly reasonable but probably more insightful than those who simply chalk this up to old fashioned American politics.
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