Posted on 04/20/2006 10:33:05 AM PDT by parnasokan
Grazie mille :-)
But in this case, it is the press who have maintained that the sun was green, knowing that it was not.
Wissam Zahawie did visit Niger, and this is unquestioned, and Wilson himself acknowledged it. Which means that not only did Bush believe his statement to be true, it in fact was and is true, and despite tons of printer's ink to the contrary, there never was any doubt about it.
It is Wilson and the press who have invested endless reams of print trying to deny what was never in doubt.
Refresh my memory....
Is it possible that Zawahie, the Iraqi Ambassador to the Vatican ( and formerly, the man behind the Iraqi purchase of uranium in 1981), had contact with these Italian forgers before visiting Niger? Perhaps some of this was a set-up from the get-go.
Is their an english version of this from a MSM website we can link to? thank for the great article
Link? I've been following the Joe Wilson as French spy angle for a long time now and have never seen anything like that. (BTW, I'm convinced Wilson is/was actively working for the French. Perhaps not formally, but they have certainly paid a lot of his bills over the decades...).
Thanks for your reply.
You may be interested in the link I imbedded in post #5.
That site destroys the drive-by media lie pretty well.
There was so much going on in Niger 1999 that it is difficult to understand how such an intrepid intelligence gatherer as J Wilson (yes, saracasm) could have missed it.
Not only did Wissam al-Zahawi visit Niger in early February, but Dr AQ Kahn flew in from Sudan for a visit to Niamey (capital of Niger) at the end of February. (http://www.kashmirherald.com/featuredarticle/khanandbinladen.html ).
AQ Kahn returned to Niger in February 2000 (same source).
....and of couse to that should be added the incident that Wilson actually did report on; the businessman who in June 1999 tried to make contact between the new post-coup Nigerien government and Iraq.
bttt
The "Great Liberal Lie" is falling apart FAST now, but it DOES NOT work to the media's advantage to get this out...
Controversy and attacks garner them higher ratings than TRUTH does, just look at the DUKE fiasco for all the proof you need of that....
It's taken 2 long years just to get to THIS point, where we can finally begin to disprove the hateful LIE that has gotten thousands of Americans KILLED, so an idiot like Kerry might be elected president.....
Have you seen this? There is a URL for the Michael Smith article at #8. From there you can go to his blog where he fills in a lot of his other thoughts--Nigergate I andf II. He is totally anti-Bush and wrong about Plame but the blog and the comments that follow are very interesting. This is the same Michael Smith as the Downing Street memo. I was going to alert some of the others who were hot on Wilson's trail last summer but I can't remember who they were. Maybe you can.
The Liberals are screwed up when it comes to lieing.
A lie is when president knows he had sex with an intern in the oval office, but then tells America that he didn't.
A false statement is when a President learns from various classified sorces and government officials that say Saddam was a "Slam Dunk", and take their word as a true statement, and tell the American people this true statement. Then later find out that it might not have been a true statement.
The Liberals are one backwards bunch...
Just happened to catch Chrissy Matthews on his show tonight in full meltdown after being told by one of his guests that the Wilson , Pflame deal was an inside the BELTWAY issue and no one outside was concerned about and didn't understand it.....
Chris Launched at that.....into multiple....Bush Lied statements and this was G** D*** important because Bush used this to drag us into a WAR...very entertaining if you like to see that kind of thing....but when Al Sharpton appeared,...I moved...ON....
Thanks for the ping!
bttt
Perhaps Matthews knows a lot more then one might think, and just continues to attempt damage coverup. Guys in his position get inside info. He knows Saddam was dealing with Niger to obtain uranium ore/yellowcake.
Actually, for all the liberals talk of their appreciation of "nuance", they seem incapable of understanding the "nuance" involved in following the twists and turns created by the worlds various intelligence agencies.
Basically, they take as ground truth the disinformation planted by anti-US intelligence interests every time, so long as its anti-Bush!
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