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Originally posted by bilmore
This massive attempt to rewrite history would be funny if it weren't so sadly pathetic. It pains me to think that the mentality that can support such crap may well end up running this country in a few months.

Bush said, in the SOTU speech, that the brit's intelligence had indications that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake in Africa.

Wilson published, in the oh-so-neutral NYT, that he was the one sent to investigate this, that he had found that it was untrue, that he had proof that the docs supporting this were forged, and that he had told Bush's people this ahead of the SOTU, but they ignored him, and thus Bush lied!

People wondered why such a known anti-war liberal Statie with no weapons-analysis experience would be chosen for such a job. My memory is fuzzy on this part, but it was posited that his likewise known antiwar wife, with some vague job at CIA, had recommended him for it. (Which, of course, starts to make it sound like a put-up job to begin with.) He says, no, no, wifey had NOTHING to do with this.

So, the commision hearings happen, and what do we find? Not only did he not find evidence to refute the brit's intell, but his findings tended to support it. (I'll remind you of the "goats or yellowcake?" posts from that era.)

Oh, and, yeah, wifey was the one who got him the gig.

And, that his "forged docs" story was . . . er . . . a mistake. (He must have had his timelines crossed, right?)

So, now, some of the more airheaded posters want to cry that the outing of Val was the REAL STORY, and anything about lyin' Joe is just a feint.

An attempt by State Department and CIA antiwar holdovers to bring down a president was just a diversion. The REAL NEWS was that the CIA employee had her job made public, after she used her position with that agency to undermine the current government policy.

Funny how the REAL STORY changes for you once your preferred original story goes to shit.

God, bilmore, this is total bullshit. Start getting your news from someplace other than NR or fox.. Wilson wasn't considered such a lefty when he voted fo Bush I over Clinton or when he stood up to SH face to face prior to the first Gulf War. This sort of smear is disgusting, and you've just proven SAM's point.