Joe Wilson: Bush Right to Attack Iraq

NewsMax.com ^ | Dec. 4, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

Joe Wilson, Iraq war supporter?

The darling of the anti-war left may be working overtime to bring down the Bush administration for "outing" his CIA wife, but Wilson said Saturday that the White House was right to go to war over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"There was a lot of reason to be concerned about weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein," he told WABC Radio's Mark Simone. "I always thought that he probably had chemical and biological weapons and biological precursors as well."

Wilson said his primary policy difference with President Bush wasn't over Saddam's WMDs, but rather on the question of "how to construct a policy that gets to the national security issue of disarming Saddam Hussein and does so at minimum risk to other legitimate U.S. interests both in Iraq and in the region."

But aside from that, Wilson said he cheered President Bush's decision to topple the Iraqi dictator, telling Simone: "When the president went up to the U.N. and got the [war] resolution unanimously passed at the U.N., nobody applauded louder than I did."

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is this satire? Do I need glasses? or is he afraid of something if Fitzgerald goes forward with this new Grand Jury?

[Ohioan from Florida]

Joe Wilson, the John Kerry of ambassadors.

[RetiredArmy]

Say what? What is going on with this?

[Republican Wildcat]

Who cares. He's a liar.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Something BIG must be coming down the track for this stinking weasel to switch hands so suddenly in his ongoing saga of public self gratification.

[Phsstpok]

And the likelyhood of this news being reported by the MSM is exponentially greater than the likelyhood of Wilson having said this in the first place.

[okie01]

Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV (ret.) is a serial liar.

He's been all over the lot on this.

In January, 2003, he was arguing against invading Iraq -- because a.) Saddam had WMD and b.) would use them.

[silverleaf]

Joe Wilson: "I have informed analytical conclusions! And if you don't believe them......I have others!"

[gedeon3]

Something BIG is coming down the track. Wilson should end up in jail for treason and lies.

[cgk]

*ping*

[Tinman73]

Wilson said his primary policy difference with President Bush wasn't over Saddam's WMDs, but rather on the question of "how to construct a policy that gets to the national security issue of disarming Saddam Hussein and does so at minimum risk to other legitimate U.S. interests both in Iraq and in the region."

Atypical LIB speak. The UN can solve everything !

[stocksthatgoup]

Against the war before he was for the war.

[Bahbah]

I know you don't make things up, Carl, so I am just shaking my head here. I really don't get this.

[sono]

Joe Wilson revealed:

[shield]

Well he and his little wifie have moved across the country from DC. Sounds like he's gettin' out of town fast. LOL

It's unfortunate we ended up with a political hack in Fitz...he's goin' after the WH and the WH ONLY...the wilsons' are safe from Fitz.

[Past Your Eyes]

I don't want Joe Wilson on my side.

[JennysCool]

[Carl/NewsMax]

I know you don't make things up, Carl, so I am just shaking my head here. I really don't get this.

It's all on tape.

Simone had asked Wilson how he could have gone to work for John Kerry, when Kerry had been one of the biggest proponents of the WMD threat.

Wilson answered with the quotes in my report.