BC
Try a bit harder to overcome your near-terminal case of BDS. Wilson went to Niger at the request of the CIA (and at the suggestion of his own wife, who was working as a lower-level analyst at the time FOR the CIA.) He spent his time there sitting around the hotel pool, drinking Long Island Ice Teas and schmoozing with a few mid-level government bureaucrats. He then came back to the U.S. and insisted that “Bush lied.” Bullspit! President Bush’s ONLY reference to ANYTHING in Africa during that SOTU speech was to quote the British, who, to the present day insist that Saddam’s Iraq HAD sought to buy yellowcake in Africa. No one, not the President OR the British have ever specified that Niger was involved in this attempt. The only connection Niger has to the issue was the British had discovered a forged document referring to Niger, but they say today that that document had nothing whatsoever to do with their assessment.
Secondly, Bush, Cheney, et al, did NOT go into “smear mode” as you put it. The name of Ms Plame was “leaked” to Novak by Richard Armitage who was a vociferous opponent of Bush’s Iraq policy and had no reason whatsoever to cover for Bush in any way. Besides, Ms Plame was NOT a “covert operative” subject to the non-disclosure rules as the Dim-bulb Democrats have insisted. Wake up and smell the coffee, BC. In 19 days, Bush will be gone and you’ll have your fondest wish…a far-left ideologue who’s both an empty suit and very likely even more corrupt than Clinton was.
