Joe Wilson, Skeptic On Iraq War Intelligence, Dies At Age 69

AP News ^ | 09/29/19 | MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN

[Enlightened1]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who set off a political firestorm by disputing U.S. intelligence used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion, died Friday, according to his ex-wife. He was 69.

Wilson died of organ failure in Santa Fe, said his former wife, Valerie Plame, whose identity as a CIA operative was exposed days after Wilson’s criticism of U.S. intelligence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium.

The leak of Plame’s covert identity was a scandal for the administration of President George W. Bush that led to the conviction of vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby for lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.

President Donald Trump pardoned Libby in 2018.

Plame, who is running as a Democrat for Congress — in part as a Trump adversary — called Wilson “a true American hero, a patriot, and had the heart of a lion.” Plame and Wilson moved to Santa Fe in 2007 to raise twin children and divorced in 2017.

In 2002, Wilson traveled to the African country of Niger to investigate allegations that Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium, which could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

Plame’s identity with the CIA was revealed in a newspaper column days after Wilson said in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the Bush administration twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war. Wilson later accused administration officials and political operatives of putting his family at risk.

A Connecticut native and graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Wilson’s career with the Foreign Service included posts in a handful of African nations.

He was the senior U.S. diplomat in Baghdad during the first Gulf War, which lasted from 1990 to 1991,

[Enlightened1]

[cgbg]

Yellow cake is hazardous to your health. ;-)

[\/\/ayne]

He wasn’t a “skeptic,” he was a Deep State Agent.

[StAnDeliver]

"organ failure"

Years of punishing an old liver because you're married to an old liver will do that to ya.

[Enlightened1]

Exactly!

[Lurkinanloomin]

No where do they mention that Richard Armitage, Deep State hack, was the one who outed Plame.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Heh...

[newzjunkey]

Yes, exactly. I was waiting for that and they somehow left that fact out.

[xrmusn]

Ho Hum!

Double DILLIGAF!

Hard to get 'upset' or even in the IGAS mood for a treacherous, mean spirited, common SOB that is also a lying bustard.

And I don't GAF for HIM either, for starting it...must be one of the first (now) outed Deep State MF'rs.

[Sooth2222]

Organ failure?

[Lean-Right]

What yellow cake?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/#.XZDJmOxME4M

[Bonemaker]

“Organ failure?”

Erectile dysfunction.

[rktman]

Surely you mean scooter libby right? /s

[Bonemaker]

“...called Wilson “a true American hero, a patriot, and had the heart of a lion.”

Probably why the commie hag divorced him.

[Bonemaker]

“...Wilson died of organ failure in Santa Fe...”

That’s a euphemism for not breathing anymore due to self-hanging. Suicide.

[shanover]

Hope fake “agent” Val soon joins Joe in Hell.

[databoss]

So is alcohol.

[surrey]

Divorced? Never knew.

[DarthVader]

It looks like that there is a new phenomenon afoot: Patrioticide!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I had a client who died from”multiple organ failure.” He was a wealthy fellow with a complex estate plan that needed changes at the 11th hour, before he succumbed to the effects of a lot of alcohol and drugs. When I saw him in the ICU at Emory in Atlanta, I couldn't believe it. It was as if a very pregnant woman were lying in bed - his abdomen was so distended, there were multiple tubes extending under the sheets covering him some injecting fluids, others removing it. He was getting abdominal lavage form dialysis. His kidneys and liver had jut about shut down. He was lucid, but speaking was difficult for him, because tho swelling of his abdomen pressed against his diaphragm and made it difficult to draw in enough air to exhale and project his voice. Witnesses to the documents he was executing had to huddle close to the bed to hear his answers (demonstrating competence, etc.) before the signing. e lived for another 11 days. His estate left funds in trust to take care of a disabled surviving sibling and then, when that beneficiary died, $ millions were released to charity.

It's truly an awful way to go, and is commonly the result of alcohol abuse.