Remember This About Joe Wilson?
Senator Pat Roberts: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, July 2004
I am pounding the words of Socrates in all of your heads...knowledge is "not forgetting." Have we forgot already this press report of the findings of the Wilson's reporting plus other intelligence before the War in Iraq. Here's a pertinent quote:
"These and other public comments from the former ambassador, such as comments that his report “debunked” the Niger-Iraq uranium story, were incorrect and have led to a distortion in the press and in the public’s understanding of the facts surrounding the Niger-Iraq uranium story. The Committee found that, for most analysts, the former ambassador’s report lent more credibility, not less, to the reported Niger-Iraq uranium deal.
During Mr. Wilson’s media blitz, he appeared on more than thirty television shows including entertainment venues. Time and again, Joe Wilson told anyone who would listen that the President had lied to the American people, that the Vice President had lied, and that he had “debunked” the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. As discussed in the Niger section of the report, not only did he NOT “debunk” the claim, he actually gave some intelligence analysts even more reason to believe that it may be true. I believed very strongly that it was important for the Committee to conclude publicly that many of the statements made by Ambassador Wilson were not only incorrect, but had no basis in fact."
Ah, yes. The notable Mr. Wilson...a man the liberals rally around. Let it be asked, do you put credibility in a man who pads and falsifies information and communicates in a manner with, using his own words, "literary flair?" Now granted, he is a handsome man for all you liberal females and homosexuals. But, are looks the basis of trust?
Of course I am being naughty here, but I am COMPLETELY baffled at the continuous blunders that are being made by the Left. We have a huge problem of terrorism that has been made horrifically clear by the London bombings, and we have a media in a Rove-rave!
Increase your knowledge and allow this Senate report to remind you what you may have forgot.
posted by Underground Logician @ 4:12 PM
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White House admits Iraq claim wrong
REUTERS , WASHINGTON
Wednesday, Jul 09, 2003,Page 6
The George W. Bush administration has acknowledged for the first time that the president's claim in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Africa was an error, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
"Knowing all that we know now, the reference to Iraq's attempt to acquire uranium from Africa should not have been included in the State of the Union speech," a senior Bush administration official said in a statement authorized by the White House, the newspaper reported.
The report said the official's statement came in response to questions about a British parliamentary commission report that raised questions about the reliability of British intelligence cited by Bush in his Jan. 28 speech.
The statement, released late on Monday, effectively conceded that intelligence underlying the claim was wrong, the newspaper said.
Controversy is raging in the US and Britain over charges that the governments of the two countries manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to make the case for war against Iraq.
No evidence of such weapons has been found by the occupying forces in Iraq.
The International Atomic Energy Agency in March dismissed a report about Iraq buying uranium from Niger as being based on forged documents.
Former US ambassador Joseph Wilson disclosed that he had traveled to Africa last year to investigate the report.
Wilson, Washington's envoy to Gabon from 1992 to 1995, told The New York Times and NBC on Sunday that he had reported back to the CIA that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.
If Ambassador Joseph Wilson were wrong, why did the WH admit the Niger claim "WAS AN ERROR?"
Facts are stubborn things.
So are the facts in the intelligence commitee report.
Well, I disagree. That Intelligence Committee Report was split by party lines. The Repubs are in charge of everything, including what gets written in a report.
Sorry.
UL said:
"Ah, yes. The notable Mr. Wilson...a man the liberals rally around. Let it be asked, do you put credibility in a man who pads and falsifies information and communicates in a manner with, using his own words, "literary flair?" Now granted, he is a handsome man for all you liberal females and homosexuals. But, are looks the basis of trust?"
And let it be asked, do you put credibility in a man who pranced around in a flight suit on an aircraft carrier with a banner that proclaimed "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?"
Now granted, Mr. Bush's "basket" looked really impressive to all those conservative women and homosexuals, but is bravado the basis of trust?
Oh, and 2 years later and almost 2000 American deaths and thousands of Iraqi dead, the mission is most certainly not accomplished.
Shame on Bush for turning a serious, horrific subject, i.e., WAR, into a photo opportunity to help get him reelected.
Shame on him. He's a disgrace.
http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?week=2002-12-01
"...John DiIulio to get him to recant the damning quotes he gave to Esquire reporter Ron Suskind?
Having now perused Suskind's soon-to-be published article, we have a much clearer picture of what must have been involved. This passage in particular stands out:"
Eventually I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove treatment, which, like LBJ's famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reported.
I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove's modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.
Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him.
I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him [emphasis in original text]!"
Bush's brain. Indeed.
Show me what you say and I'll tell you what kind of person you are.
I suppose that principle works both ways, right?
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