7/14/2004
Did Bush lie to send this country to war? Many of our far-left friends think so, including one man, Joe Wilson, who first claimed in a July, 2003, New York Times column that the President’s [url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html]2003 State of The Union speech[/url] contained [url=http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=823]one lie in particular[/url] (Saddam’s attempt to buy yellow cake uranium from Niger) that he could personally refute.
The controversy ballooned when Robert Novak wrote a column entitled [url=http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml]Mission to Niger[/url], in which he claimed that two “senior administration officials” had informed him of the fact that Mr. Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, an operative in the CIA’s WMD section, had recommended him for the assignment. Mr. Wilson claimed outrage that his wife had been “outed” by the Bush Administration, an act of revenge, he claimed, for embarrasing the President by refuting the President’s use of the intelligence in his speech.
Mr. Wilson repeatedly denied that his wife had recommended him for the assignment, claiming rather, that he had been contacted by CIA officials seperately. An [url=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilson.interview.pdf]interview with Josh Marshall[/url] of Talking Points Memo has Wilson asserting that his wife, pregnant with twins at the time, would not have wanted him to go.
Now, fast-forward to April of 2004. This is month in which Mr. Wilson published his book, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078671378X/qid=1089775409/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-1783716-0619958?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir[/url], which claimed, amazingly that the President had not lied about the Niger incident. Indeed, Saddam had attempted to buy yellow cake uranium in Niger, just as UK intelligence sources had claimed and just as the President had reiterated in his speech.
This startling revelation, of course, was left virtually untouched by the liberal media. Apparently, it wasn’t quite as newsworthy as a potential Bush intelligence scandal… Go figure!
But Mr. Wilson went on to insist again that he had not been recommended by his wife for the Niger assignment and that the administration officials had outed Ms. Plame as revenge, not simply to question Mr. Wilson’s claims.
Fast-forward again to the recent release of the [url=http://web.mit.edu/simsong/www/iraqreport2-textunder.pdf]Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report[/url], which asserts that Mr. Wilson was indeed recommended for the Niger assignment by his wife, just as the administration officials claimed. The significance of this finding cannot be underestimated because, not only does it show conclusively who the real liar is, it literally [url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005342]ends any claims that Mr. Wilson[/url] ever made that the Bush Administration broke any laws.
Ultimately, this finding is incredibly embarrasing to any who supported Mr. Wilson in his claim that “Bush lied” regarding the yellow cake story. But even more important in my mind is the fact that this incident shows in the clearest manner possible how reckless the left has become in it’s attempts to hurt the President. Mr. Wilson’s so-called “proof” that the President had “lied” to the American people was used to lend credence to other supposed “lies” or exaggerations. Lies built upon lies, held together by even more lies. A house of cards blown away by the winds of truth.
Unfortunately, people like Mr. Wilson are so reckless, they are even willing to endanger our national security efforts in their blind attempt to hurt the man they hate. Who cares if these “nuances” hurt the country’s credibility in the international community?
Who cares if this makes us less effective in protecting the homeland, or in removing terrorists and terrorist supporters across the world? As long as it hurts President Bush, its okay with the left!
And both John Kerry and John Edwards have been duplicitous in helping to foster and spread the reckless lies of the left. Both of these men have, in recent years, made the same claims as the President regarding Iraq, only to accuse the President of misleading them in 2003. Was George Bush somehow manipulating the two Johns in 1998 when they were making the same intelligence claims as they made in 2003?
Perhaps a better campaign slogan for the two Johns would be something like, “The Truth is No Obstacle!” It sound a lot more accurate to me!
David Flanagan
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