Keep in mind that so far the left-wing news media has also down-played Ambassador Wilson's knowledge of those forged documents 8 months **prior** to the U.S. first seeing them ("the names were wrong and the dates were wrong" he claimed before anyone had seen them).
That would be Joe Wilson of Niger WMD infamy...the Joe Wilson who lied about his wife sending him to Niger...the Joe Wilson whose 2nd wife was French...said French wife living with Joe Wilson and his new 3rd wife Valerie Plame...the same Joe Wilson who was on a first name basis with French spooks in Africa.
May I ask, where the information that Joe Wilson's second (french) wife lived with Joe and Valerie came from? I have seen this mentioned several times on these threads. I have read almost everything about this situation and have not come uppon this information before.
Thank you in advance.
Please see my post
here (#42) for info on Wilson and the forged documents.
Also, from a post I did this morning...
Check out the link here (#3). As is noted in that thread, Wilson's ex-wife shows up as having the same address as Joe, but Valerie has a different home address than Joe. Strange.
I had missed connection to Gabon before by piasa on that thread:
Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.
If you will note post #21 by piasa in the thread I linked above, Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990, per post #22. That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.
Hat tip to piasa for this info, which gives motive.