Posted on 03/28/2008 2:48:41 AM PDT by CutePuppy
Everyone else in the media is pounding Hillary Clinton for her tale, now shown to be fanciful, of dodging bullets on a Bosnian tarmac as first lady. But if you're looking for the best recent example of the lengths Mrs. Clinton will go to win the Democratic Presidential nod, consider that last week in Philadelphia she used Joe and Valerie Wilson as campaign props.
Was George Galloway not available?
Mr. Wilson and his wife are darlings of the antiwar crowd for their roles as self-styled martyrs in the CIA "leak" fiasco. The former ambassador is still cashing in on his claim that President Bush lied us into war, and the glam couple has had to endure Vanity Fair photo shoots, book tours and the other slings and arrows of outrageous modern celebrity.
Their role in the Clinton campaign seems to be to inoculate her against Barack Obama's claim that she voted wrong on Iraq in 2002. "I was involved in that debate in every step of the effort to prevent this senseless war and I profoundly resent Obama's distortion of George Bush's folly into Hillary Clinton's responsibility," Mr. Wilson recently wrote on his Huffington Post blog -- a view he echoed at the Clinton campaign event.
"The administration lied in order to secure support for its war of choice, including cooking the intelligence and misleading Congress about the intent of the authorization," Mr. Wilson continued. "Senator Clinton's position, stated in her floor speech, was in favor of allowing the United Nations weapons inspectors to complete their mission and to build a broad international coalition. Bush rejected her path."
This is the same Senator Clinton who spoke extensively of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his WMD, who endorsed the invasion as a way to remove that threat .....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Sorry, the link seems painfully slow and I can’t seem to load the entire page properly.
I did notice that it’s a HufPo, so it’s possible that it just doesn’t pass my “Internet porn” filters :-)
Thanks. Well, that’s pretty accurate... so for HufPo - how very “progressive” of them!
Yeah, they’re pretty much eating each other alive over there : )
Thanks for the visual.
In a PAST, JUST America, the Wilson’s would be in PRISON!!
Why do you say that?
My pleasure : )
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