This is hardball, played by true professionals.
According to Bob Woodward, George Friedman, and the Downing Street memos...the Administration was profoundly shocked by 911. The destruction was bad enough but they were horrified to discover that no defense was possible and they thought that WMD attack might be imminant ( :) ).
They decided that their only possible course was an agressive attack on the Muslim culture which was spawning terrorists, an attack that had to be mounted ASAP.
They did what the had to to pull it off. I don't consider their actions to be any different from those of Polk, McKinley, TR, Wilson, FDR, Truman, or Johnson. I agree with their analysis...
...in my view Joe Wilson has been right about everything except the most important thing - what it takes to defend this country.
Now that is entirely plausible. Liberals do take their freedom and their security for granted. This is their greatest sin.
But: why is it that no one seems to be questioning the sources behind Wilson's claims? The Nigerian government seems thoroughly corrupt. Wilson's familiarity to them as a former diplomat would have insured they provide a weekend with Rosy Scenario. I doubt he could have found any real scuttlebut if he'd wanted to. Yet he claims infallible knowledge of all that occurred, in the op-ed section of the daily wiper. Some diplomat. Some snoop.
Help me out here -- what has he been right about? The guy lied about everything except who was President and what planet this is.