Tom W.
No amount of smug verbal diarrhea from you can obscure that fact. You were dead wrong, and proven to be dead wrong. Either you’re ignorant or a liar.
I find it very interesting that the only think you “claim” to have gotten me on is the Wilson/Plame affair. You’ve conspiciously dropped your other mistakes from this discussion, and I’ve been civil enough to let sleeping dog lie without insults. You method of argument strongly resembles that famous Faux News charon the day that Libby was convicted of four out of 5 federal counts. Remember that one? It said “Libby Found Not Guilty of Lying to the FBI” or words to that effect.
None of what you way, of course, refutes the simple facts that the Bush Admistration grossly overstated the case of Iraq looking for more uranium ore to supplement the 580 metric tons it had sitting in a bunker under IEAE supervision and was called on it by Joe Wilson in an op-ed in July 2003. Coincidently, the same month senior Adminstration officials told Novak that Valerie Plame was in fact NOC agent for a covert CIA front company called Brewster Jennings that worked on counter-proliferation.
Since the quote you provide above has very little context, I will simply note that the Niger documents were proven fakes in January of 2003 by a variety of federal agencies.
In September of 2002 Bush’s Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley was given those fake documents by the head of the Italian intelligence agency SISMI because the CIA was skeptical about them. A month later, Bush begins talking in speechs about how dangerous Iraq would be if they got uranium. A specific charge, that Iraq had been caught trying to buy uranium, is removed by Tenent.
A month after that, the part removed by Tenet winds up in a State Department “fact sheet”.
A month after that, the various federal agencies conclude the documents are false, yet they still somehow wind up in the 2003 SOTU speech gave, the famous Sixteen Words.
Oh, if only Another sickening liar with no morals whatsoever applied to Republicans a tenth as much as they apply to non-Republicans.
Some of us actually care about our country and aren’t willing to embrace liars and seditious opportunists just because of political expediency.
We are in agreement.
