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Originally Posted by powerclown
I don't think there's an over-reliance here on the fact that Wilson's wife sent him to Africa. Stand back for a moment and look at all the evidence, try to see in people's statements what their motivation is. Wilson has already made clear his motive when he said he wanted to see Rove "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." Now Howard "The Cannibal" Dean, John Kerry, and Hilary "I Burned All My Blue Dresses" Clinton are clamoring for Rove's head. It's pretty clear what's happening here.
Did Rove do something sleazy? Yes.
Did Wilson do something sleazy? Yes.
Did Robert Novak do something sleazy? Yes.
Did Valerie Plame do something sleazy? Most likely.
Did TIME magazine do something sleazy? Most likely.
The dems know that can't pin anything on Rove (lord knows they've been trying for the past 2 years) so now they're dragging him through the court of Public Opinion, praying that something - ANYTHING - will pressure Rove to resign.
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Please explain your "Did Wilson do something sleazy? Yes." What can you offer to show that Wilson was not credible and forthright, in his July 6, 2003 NY Times Op-Ed piece, or subsequently, that comes from a non-partisan source. Wilson signed no NDA with the CIA before or after his trip to Niger. The subsequent revelations of the Duelfer WMD report, and the Jan. 12, 2005 admissions to reporters by Scott MCClellan, speaking on behalf of the president, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050112-7.html">that the weapons that we all believed were there, based on the intelligence, were not there.</a>, only serve to strengthen Wilson's already strong credentials as a "whistleblower" acting appropriately in the wake of the failure of the executive administration to back it's oft repeated claims of the nature of the threat that Iraq posed to the U.S., that justified an military invasion of that sovereign country.
powerclown, you may accept Rove's distortions that "Wilson claimed Cheney sent him to Niger", or <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/page/2/">that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.</a>
I don't accept it because there are no sources for those distortions besides "senior administration officials" and Sen. Pat Roberts partisan "addenedum".
This is a link to an accurate, IMO, of the distortions that are used to smear Wilson, and the defects in them:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200507150008
Can you make a case that Wilson is "sleazy", inferring that he deserved the onslaught of Rove's campaign to marginalize Wilson and his wife, that Rove launched no later than immediately after Wilson wrote:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.htm
In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake — a form of lightly processed ore — by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office.....
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I have a hard time posting that anyone is "sleazy". I have to be certain of what I know, and not what others filter for me, before I'll post that about someone. What do you know, that persuades you that Wilson is sleazy?