Wilson has the ego that would make him think he could actually get away with something like this.
Sorry, haven't started a ping list yet but maybe I will!
Here's something from "Timeswatch" a year ago that mentions that the "Bureau of Intelligence and Research" at State predicted before the war that Turkey might not cooperate - but did any current or former State or CIA officials help to make this a self-fulfilling prophecy?? I think it's highly likely that people LIKE Joe Wilson, if not Wilson himself, were giving their Turkish contacts at least a wink and a nudge, if not more overt encouragement, to try to block the movement toward war. They would have assumed that if Turkey did not at least allow the 4th ID movement to northern Iraq that the war would be considerably delayed if not blocked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/politics/19INTE.html?ex=1122696000&en=2fb97f02477607fe&ei=5070&pagewanted=all&position&oref=login
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0719.asp
"The misinformed reporting continues Monday. Douglas Jehl spreads the old line about Niger and uranium in a story about the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. One of the successes Jehl credits the tiny agency for is its dismissal of the "British contention" that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Niger: "It also predicted correctly that Turkey might not permit American troops to cross its territory en route to Iraq...."
Sorry, haven't started a ping list yet but maybe I will!
Here's something from "Timeswatch" a year ago that mentions that the "Bureau of Intelligence and Research" at State predicted before the war that Turkey might not cooperate - but did any current or former State or CIA officials help to make this a self-fulfilling prophecy?? I think it's highly likely that people LIKE Joe Wilson, if not Wilson himself, were giving their Turkish contacts at least a wink and a nudge, if not more overt encouragement, to try to block the movement toward war. They would have assumed that if Turkey did not at least allow the 4th ID movement to northern Iraq that the war would be considerably delayed if not blocked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/politics/19INTE.html?ex=1122696000&en=2fb97f02477607fe&ei=5070&pagewanted=all&position&oref=login
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0719.asp
"The misinformed reporting continues Monday. Douglas Jehl spreads the old line about Niger and uranium in a story about the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. One of the successes Jehl credits the tiny agency for is its dismissal of the "British contention" that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Niger: "It also predicted correctly that Turkey might not permit American troops to cross its territory en route to Iraq...."