Posted on 10/22/2005 7:53:24 PM PDT by Saynotosocialism
http://www.bdpgabon.org/ancien_site/bdp/revelationspol1.html Salinger wrote a book on the first Gulf War, Dossier. In it are about ten pages of a recounting of conversations between Saddam and Wilson. I can only guess Wilson was the source. -- Source: FreeRepublic's Shermy , in 1 posted on 04/16/2004 1:01:47 PM PDT by Shermy
In late July 1990, Glaspie, who had already delayed her annual vacation to America twice, packed her bags and came home, leaving Wilson in charge.The night of August 1, [1990] Wilson had dinner with someone he describes as "Saddam's principal arms buyer in Paris. It was so hot the air was literally shimmering right in front of the windshield. "I get to this guy's house, and it had been chilled to 45, 50 degrees ... roaring fire in the fireplace and over in a corner a white baby grand piano and a guy playing classical music on it. The guy looks like a Pancho Villa figure, Mexican bandito.... We sat down to dinner, just him, myself, my wife, and five bodyguards-armed." ---- Wilson
The wife is Jacqueline, not Valerie. The one who was a "cultural counselor" for a French embassy when he met her. I wonder why they had dinner together... 17 posted on 04/29/2004 7:46:03 PM PDT by Shermy
To: Grampa Dave; Dog Gone
She's mentioned in Vanity Fair. Met in Africa. Married 12 years or so. She was a French diplomat. In Vanity Fair he talks about how she and Wilson attended a dinner with one of Saddam's top arms purchasers on the eve of the invasion of Kuwait. In his book this wife is wholly absent and unmentioned. Wilson specifies he went to the dinner "alone."
37 posted on 03/26/2005 10:49:37 AM PST by Shermy
Actually what MoDo wrote is this:
Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.
Quite an amazing admission about the NYT.
A sample of the content from that:
Intelligence collection against Iraq fell far short of the mark. The intelligence base for collection and analysis was thin and sketchy. The Intelligence Community had nothing like the richness, density, and detail that it worked hard to develop and became accustomed to having on Soviet issues during the Cold War. To a significant extent this resulted from the reduction over the past decade of the professional collection management cadre capable of integrating HUMINT, imagery, and signals intelligence capabilities into coherent strategies. This development was compounded by the increased separation of collection professionals from the analytic cadre who had been intimately involved in identifying collection gaps, needs, and priorities and developing collection strategies.
I find it highly interesting all the knives that have come out for Miller. Obviously something is going on that is not being reported.
Note all the consternation about her reporting on WMD. There has not been a word said about all the bad reporting on all the "rapes" that occurred in NO after Katrina. I haven't heard anyone bad mouthing Rather either. It really seems they are out to discredit Miller for some reason.
Went back and reread the Vanity Fair article. Couldn't help but notice that the article describes Joe Wilson as having a full head of gray hair. Look up at the picture, and it appears he has washed the gray away. Guess he was also incognito that day.
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