Posted on 10/29/2005 7:12:31 AM PDT by AliVeritas
AFTER THE two-year smear campaign orchestrated by senior officials in the Bush White House against my wife and me, it is tempting to feel vindicated by Friday's indictment of the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Between us, Valerie and I have served the United States for nearly 43 years. I was President George H.W. Bush's acting ambassador to Iraq in the run-up to the Persian Gulf War, and I served as ambassador to two African nations for him and President Clinton. Valerie worked undercover for the CIA in several overseas assignments and in areas related to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
But on July 14, 2003, our lives were irrevocably changed. That was the day columnist Robert Novak identified Valerie as an operative, divulging a secret that had been known only to me, her parents and her brother.
Valerie told me later that it was like being hit in the stomach. Twenty years of service had gone down the drain. She immediately started jotting down a checklist of things she needed to do to limit the damage to people she knew and to projects she was working on. She wondered how her friends would feel when they learned that what they thought they knew about her was a lie.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Lies and disinformation have been used by all nations to justify their actions in every war.
It has left our international reputation in tatters and our military broken. It has weakened the United States, increased hatred of us and made terrorist attacks against our interests more likely in the future
Speculation. How does he know what would have happened had we chosen a different course? How does he know what will happen a couple of years later on our chosen path? Popular attitudes are notoriously fickle and changeable.
It has been...the greatest strategic blunder in the history of our country
The heart of the matter.
We invaded Iraq to remove the threat posed by Saddam and to weaken that posed by other Muslim nations and peoples. If what follows is more favorable to our interests Wilson will have been proven wrong. If not, he will have been proven right.
With friends like Joe, Saddam can't go wrong.
Joe is hitting the circuit...he'll be on 60mins tomrrow night and will give a speech Mon to the Press Club ...next stop, Oprah...
""Valerie told me later that it was like being hit in the stomach. Twenty years of service had gone down the drain""
And the horse he rode in on.
We know, Joe... It's all about you.
BOY...isn't he full of himself...like he said:..."to many wives and to much drugs..."
This guy belongs along side of that crazy sheenan woman...in the crazy house for sure....along with ALOT of democRATS and some Pubbies I know...(John McCain for one).
Yeah, right. My take on this is that Valerie was upset about being "outed" only because (a) it might lead to nepotism-related questions about her dispatching her very own hubby to Niger and (b) it wasn't done in a laudatory manner. You BET she'd have been happy to see her name in print if it was for "CIA Employee of the Month."
If ever two people deserved each other, it's the Wilsons.
Oil for Food money JOE?
On the other hand, Joey has been proven to be a liar by the Senate and he has continued to try to smear the president and the administration. He and his wife want privacy, yet they appear in the magazine spread, Joey writes a book and op-eds smearing every chance he gets.
He lied about who sent him, he lied about what he found, he lied when he said his wife was covert. I hope like hell he files a civil suit.
Mark to read later.
Is he suggesting her parents and brother had clearance to know that she was covert???
Pinz
Isn't that almost identical to what Hillary said when Bubba "outed" himself to her. (Like he had a secret sex life (again) she didn't know about).
If so, amazing how they line up. Who's Joe's editor, Mandy Grunwald-Cooper?
I think Mr. Wilson did a great sevice to our country by exposing the false claims made by the Bush administration during the lead up to war. I would think that conservatives would rally around someone with the courage to do just that, just as they did when Linda Tripp became a hero for her exposure of Mr. Clinton's lies. The double standard that so-called conservatives display on this forum is incredible.
That tag line of yours is a classic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801172.html
She obviously WASN'T a covert CIA agent if her parents, brother, and Joe Wilson knew.
"She felt like she'd been hit in the stomach. It took her breath away." (Joe Wilson)
"Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' (Hillary Clinton)
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