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Defiant diplomat Joseph Wilson, who sparred with Bush admin over Iraq, dies at 69
Wilson’s confrontation with the White House was set in motion in 2002 when the CIA asked him to fly to Niger and confirm reports the country had, in the 1990s, sold uranium yellowcakes to Saddam Hussein so he could build a nuclear weapon.
Wilson found no evidence that Niger had made such a sale to Iraq and reported that to the CIA.
He was stunned when President George W. Bush declared in his January 2003 State of the Union Address that the British government had learned that Hussein “recently bought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Seven months later, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.
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The Bush administration outed the wife of Wilson as a covert CIA agent putting an unknown number of Americans at risk of death.
Eventually Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby went to prison over this matter and last year was pardoned by get this, Donald Trump.
Wilson’s confrontation with the White House was set in motion in 2002 when the CIA asked him to fly to Niger and confirm reports the country had, in the 1990s, sold uranium yellowcakes to Saddam Hussein so he could build a nuclear weapon.
Wilson found no evidence that Niger had made such a sale to Iraq and reported that to the CIA.
He was stunned when President George W. Bush declared in his January 2003 State of the Union Address that the British government had learned that Hussein “recently bought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Seven months later, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.
——
The Bush administration outed the wife of Wilson as a covert CIA agent putting an unknown number of Americans at risk of death.
Eventually Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby went to prison over this matter and last year was pardoned by get this, Donald Trump.
