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I referred to the RNC talking points, which state unequivocally that Wilson DID expressly claim that Cheney sent him. A point you apparently acknowledge is not true.

It is not true legalistically, I grant. However, Wilson was only too happy to encourage the MSM in their mistaken expression that he was "on a mission from Cheney". Until, of course, he was pinned to the truth and, perforce, had to deny it.

Irrespective of all that, Joe Wilson does not warrant your -- or indeed, any American's -- defense and respect.

In Wilson, we have a man who himself believed that Saddam had WMD and would use them up to and even after Bush's SOTU speech. A man who then, out of rank political opportunism, undertook to undermine the President of the United States at a time of war.

What's more, Wilson was prepared to -- and did in fact -- fabricate the evidence in order to accomplish his highly partisan objective.

Legalistically, you might contend that Wilson was not really guilty of treason, but his intention certainly approached the mark. Assuming you are a patriotic American, Joe Wilson is undeserving of your support.

Instead, the little weasel deserves our hearty contempt.

"Legalistically, you might contend that Wilson was not really guilty of treason, but his intention certainly approached the mark. Assuming you are a patriotic American, Joe Wilson is undeserving of your support. Instead, the little weasel deserves our hearty contempt."

Hear, hear.... well said!!! Also, let us not forget that Wilson's findings from his pathetically incompetent 'mission' to Niger not only did NOTHING to refute concerns about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger but actually provided some (limited) support. The "little weasel" reported the approach of an Iraqi "trade mission" which a former minister told him was probably about uranium, but Wilson was/is either too stupid or too mendacious to honestly represent this. He should be saying "well, yes, there was some additional basis for believing Iraq might be seeking uranium from Niger, but (so far) no evidence that they'd actually acquired it.... though how on earth I (Joe Wilson) would have the slightest idea what might be done "off the books" or passed through Libya (on Niger's northern border) is a good question indeed!"