Posted on 05/29/2004 7:52:02 AM PDT by Gothmog
During a speech "flogging" his book Wilson took shots at Bush:
"Former Ambassador and Bush Administration critic Joe Wilson was seemingly preaching to the choir Saturday in City Hall. Not one dissenting voice was heard."
Snip
"The Bush administration sent Wilson to Niger to investigate the accusation that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy nuclear materials to construct weapons of mass destruction. Wilson said he determined it was untrue and reported that in February 2002 to Vice President Dick Cheney."
Wilson said:
"This was not a simple mistake...It was cleverly calculated to deceive the Congress of the United States, the American people and the people around the world. It formed the basis of the case that Saddam was a threat to the United States."
He also said:
"I am a child of the 60s...I have way too many wives [three]. I have way to many drugs in my background and yes, I did inhale."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Sounds like he's still on the drugs.
Wilson ping. The paper says the Laguna Institute sponsored the event. I've done some Google searches but so far nothing really shows what that group is. Related to art groups and cultural events. Bet it's full of communists, though.
Joe Wilson wasn't an ambassador was he?
Yeah, ambassador to Iraq and later I believe Clinton made him some sort of 'ambassador to Africa.' now he's the ambassador of lunacy and self-promotion.
Wilson said:
"This was not a simple mistake...It was cleverly calculated to deceive the Congress of the United States, the American people and the people around the world. It formed the basis of the case that Saddam was a threat to the United States."
Wait a minute. Doesn't his new back say that he now remembers the Niger finance minister telling him that, in fact, Saddam had sent a representative to establish "trade relations" and that the mininster interpreted that to be an attempt to buy nuclear materials? And didn't he say that he finally found out who the representative was? That it was Baghdad Bob?
I know I've seen that reported here, and I've been assuming this little revelation was why Wilson's book (and Wilson himself) wasn't getting the Richard Clarke "hero worship" treatment on TV and in the press.
Was what I saw on FR something like an Onion piece?
Nope (I love Google)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54640-2004Apr29?language=printer
Washington Post, Friday, April 30, 2004; Page A16
Book Names Iraqi in Alleged '99 Bid to Buy Uranium
It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.
Yeah, reading this article was really painful. They took all of Wilson's usual assertions and wrote it as news and then added "..., Wilson said."
So it was like "George Bush is the devil incarnate, tortures babies, etc., etc., ..., Wilson said."
Lots of mistakes and glossing over in this article.
"On a recommendation from his wife, the CIA sent Wilson to Africa to investigate the accusation that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy nuclear materials to construct weapons of mass destruction. While sipping sweet tea on the veranda of a hotel in Niger, Wilson said he determined it was untrue after talking to officials of the Niger government - all of whom by the way had a vested interest in hiding the truth from the USA. Wilson then reported his 'findings' to his CIA handler in February 2002."
ahhh, that's better :-)
But wait, that's the truth, not the 'accepted wisdom,' ha ha ha.
Well any voter who bases their opinion on the rantings of this shoe salesman probably can't find the polling place anyway.
Oh, wait, I'm sure that is no longer necessary now that voters' intentions can simply be divined.
As in "to death?"
I still hate hippies, grrrr...
(Wait, is that a Hate Crime?)
Wilson's quote:
"He said he was here to 'flog' his book, which was 11th on the New York Times Best Seller on Saturday — maybe higher on Sunday."
This guy is so obviously a self promoting self serving moron that only the liberal left wing press would waste ink on him. In addition, that third wife (if at first you don't succeed, try try again) will probably soon get sick of this sicko spawn of the left wing 60's.
I would nominate Richard Clarke as the "high White House Official" that leaked Wilson's wife's name.
"...but submitted no written record of his report.
"Wilson's account was supported by CIA analysts who argued that it was not likely that Iraq was seeking to buy yellow-cake from Niger, as they'd already bought more than a hundred tons, and would not likely to have consumed that massive quantity."
As with Kerry when he spoke of regime change in the US, Wilson ought to be ashamed to reject our democratic constitution.
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