Only you and the other idiots who gave you a thanks failed the reading comprehension test...
I'm always astounded at how easily led the battalion of the left are...
I double dog dare you to read the following and continue your stupidity.
"Despite having ample opportunities to do so, Joe Wilson never complained about the "sixteen words" in President BushÂ’s State Of The Union address until almost five months after it was delivered.
And then only after he had met with top Democrat Senators and had signed on with John KerryÂ’s presidential campaign.
From then on Mr. Wilson promoted a two-fold story to reporters in which
he claimed:
1) That he had personally debunked the claims of IraqÂ’s nuclear deals with Niger with an "unequivocal" report that circulated at the highest levels of the government.
2) That he had personally debunked the so-called Niger forgeries by pointing out to the CIA and State Department that the documents contained errors in names and dates.
We now know thanks to the report on this matter from the bi-partisan US Senate Select Committee On Intelligence that both of these claims were utterly false. (And indeed,
the "sixteen words" themselves have turned out to be quite grounded in fact.)
A month before Bob Novak published Valerie PlameÂ’s name and disclosed that she worked at the CIA in a department that monitored weapons of mass destruction, the gossipy
Richard Armitage at the State Department already knew all about her.
When asked how he knew about Plame, Armitage said he knew because
Joe Wilson was "calling everybody" and telling them. And by "everybody" Mr. Armitage certainly meant reporters.
With that in mind it is an easy step to suppose that it was
Mr. Joseph C. Wilson IV himself who first "outed" his wife as a CIA officer.
February 6, 2003: Joe Wilson wrote an editorial for the Los Angeles Times, A ‘Big Cat’ With Nothing to Lose, in which he claimed we should not attack Saddam Hussein because
he will use his weapons of mass destruction on our troops and give them to terrorists.
February 28, 2003:
Joe Wilson was interviewed by Bill Moyers. Wilson agreed with BushÂ’s SOTU remarks, and reiterated his belief that Saddam had WMD and that he would use them on US troops.
March 3, 2003: At the invitation of David Corn, Joe Wilson wrote a piece for the Nation, Republic Or Empire?
In it Wilson blasted the "neo-conservatives" in the Bush administration for their imperial over-reach. But he once again made no mention of uranium or any other suggestion that Bush misled the country or lied about IraqÂ’s WMD.
March 8, 2003: CNNÂ’s Renay San Miguel interviewed Joe Wilson about the so-called Niger forgeries, which had just become a hot topic in the news.
WILSON: I have no idea. IÂ’m not in the government. I would not want to be doing damage control on this. I think you probably just fess up and try to move on and say thereÂ’s sufficient other
evidence to convict Saddam of being involved in the nuclear arms trade.
Note that up until at least March 8, 2003 Joe Wilson still contended that Saddam had WMD and that he was involved in the nuclear arms trade.
So what happened after March 8th to make
Wilson change his tune about IraqÂ’s WMD and revise his "findings" from his trip to Niger? A version in
direct contradiction to what he told his CIA debriefers, according to the US SenateÂ’s Select Committee On Intelligence report?
May 2003: Joe Wilson began to "advise" the
Kerry for President campaign.
May 6, 2003: New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof published the first public mention of Wilson’s mission to Niger, without identifying him by name, in a column for the New York Times, Missing in Action: Truth. “…that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.
The envoy reported, for example, that a Niger minister whose signature was on one of the documents had in fact been out of office for more than a decade.”
Note that unlike in his interview with CNN on March 8, 2003,
Wilson was now claiming to have personally taken an active role in debunking the so-called forgeries. Which is of course
untrue, since we now know Wilson never saw the documents.
The SenateÂ’s Select Committee On Intelligence, which examined pre-Iraq war intelligence, reported that Wilson "had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports."
(The Senate CommitteeÂ’s report goes on to say: the former ambassador said that he may have "misspoken" to the reporter when he said he concluded the documents were "forged.")
June 12, 2003: Walter Pincus published an article in the Washington Post, CIA Did Not Share Doubt on Iraq Data.
Among the envoyÂ’s conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," the former U.S. government official said.
Again, we now know that
what Wilson told Pincus, like what he had told Kristof, was completely untrue, since the relevant papers were not in CIA hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.
June 2003: According to the Washington PostÂ’s Bob Woodward, the following
interview with Richard Armitage at the State Department transpired "about a month before" Robert NovakÂ’s column appeared on July 14, 2003.
Woodward: Well it was Joe Wilson who was sent by the agency, isnÂ’t it?
Armitage: His wife works for the agency.
Woodward: Why doesnÂ’t that come out? Why does that have to be a big secret?
Armitage: (over)
Everybody knows it.Woodward: Everyone knows?
Armitage: Yeah. And they know Â’cause
Joe WilsonÂ’s been calling everybody. HeÂ’s pissed off Â’cause he was designated as a low level guy went out to look at it. So heÂ’s all pissed off.
When, Why Joe Wilson Outed Valerie Plame | Sweetness & Light
(emphasis mine)
So, after all this time, and with minimal research and comprehension, the boobs in this thread are still insisting that black is white and up is down....
unbelievable.
