I don't think anyone will ever confuse Joe Wilson with someone with any class. lol
I've thought Ms Jacqueline was an agent from the first mention. Too mysterious, yet obvious at the same time. (Could be my liberal use of FR tin foil, too.)
Was their marriage a 'cover?' Is he a French spy? Is Valerie on 'loan' to France for this mission?
Interesting that she mentions, in writing no less, that Joe has French connections when she recommends him for the trip to Niger.
Pinz
June 23, 2003
Washington Lied
An Interview with Ray McGovern
By MARC PRITZKE
Editors' Note: Former CIA official, Ray McGovern, has leveled serious accusations at the Bush administration in connection with the war in Iraq. McGovern served as a CIA analyst for almost 30 years. From 1981 to 1985 he conducted daily briefings for Ronald Reagan's vice president, George Bush, the father of the incumbent president. The following interview originally appeared in Die Tagesspiegel, one of Berlin's largest daily papers. Imagine this appearing in the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
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This current administration had decided by September 2002 to make war on Iraq--five months before Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech at the UN. What was missing was the intelligence basis to justify the decision for war.
But the intelligence is still not conclusive. And in the case of the uranium Iraq was said to be seeking, it was based on forged documents.
That didn't make any difference. In retrospect, the train of thought in the White House at the time is clear: How long can we keep the forged documents from the public? A few months? In that case we can use the documents to get Congress to endorse war with Iraq and then wage it and win it before anyone discovers that the "evidence" was bogus.
In addition, the administration has very artfully taken advantage of the trauma of September 11. So, for example, al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were always mentioned in the same breath, without any proof of a connection between the two.
More here...
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