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."

[coconutt2000]

Wilson must be shopping for a new patron. I'm guessing he's setting himself up for a spot on Hillary's campaign committee and eventually her cabinet.

I bet he's aiming for Sec. of State.

[LK44-40]

Who cares. He's a liar.

Oh, I don't know....makes me think, for the first time, that maybe W ~was~ incorrect/uninformed/misleading. After all, if Joe Wilson now believes it was justified....that has to cause second thoughts. [/sarcasm]

[freema]

OMG, too funny, TOO funny!

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[Hoodat]

Can someone find me a link on this other than NewsMax? A direct account from Simone would be helpful. Thanks.

[mosquitobite]

*Mr Burns voice*

Excellent!

[ravingnutter]

I am wondering if Fitzgerald has kicked the FBI in the butt as part of the new GJ investigation. They have reopened the case...could it have been at his request? After all, he did go to Italy to interview SISMI about the source of the documents.

FBI Is Taking Another Look at Forged Prewar Intelligence

Nigergate: The FBI re-opens the case, joint investigation with SISMI

[popdonnelly]

Wilson was, and is, an anti-war Democrat.

[TShaunK]

Hey how about a link or transcript...I am looking like a liar myself....wheres the beef??

[Mixer]

Carl....is there a transcript of this anywhere? It wuld be helpful in debates when trying to get the dems to admit how wrong they are.

[TShaunK]

Does anyone know of a second source to this story...I'm getting killed at a lefty website promoting this.

[TShaunK]

To Carl and others.
I wrote to Mark Simone of WABC radio and he sent me the tape of the part of the conversation where Joe Wilson said those quotes....It is true I heard the tape myself.Mark said I could use it if I wanted to.I don't know how to post a link without giving up personal info.Can someone advise?

[Just mythoughts]

"Who cares. He's a liar."


I care cause Joe is somebody's liar, he did not conjure up this whole "protect Saddam" alll by himself. Even though he now is trying to put forth the idea that he is cheering the demise of Saddam.

[wolfcreek]

Nobody said he was stupid, just a liar.

[kjam22]

Yeah.... this is foreshadowing. This guy knows he's in deep trouble.

[Redleg Duke]

Sounds like Joe The Mouth is trying to cover his fanny.