Wilson was directly and deliberately trying to undermine the government he was paid to help assess the situation in Iraq. His supposed "insider connections" gave him nothing, and he failed to find out important information about the connection between Iraq and Niger.
As for where my information comes from, the Iraq-Niger connection is now well-documented. Check out several pieces by Chris Hitchens (including this one in Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2140058/ ). You may not like the fact that his has disavowed the looney left, but he is hardly the lapdog of the Bush Administration and he has done a tremendous amount of investigative journalism to uncover facts that totally escaped Joe Wilson (who Hitchen's thinks is basically a boob). As for the recommendation from his wife, if he had done anything useful, it might have gone unnoticed, but the fact that he was not just useless but actively harmful to the government's efforts through his incompetence or laziness should raise serious questions about his fitness to have undertaken the mission in the first place. On 7/12/06, Dana wrote: > > yet again I am tempted to ask someone where they get their news. In my > world it is far from demonstrated that Wilson got everything wrong. In fact, > it really seems to me that you are buying into a lot of well, since you > mention the term, hysterical name-calling. Who is making ad hominem attacks > in this picture? That's usually the side that can't win the argument on the > facts. > > Personally, I don't think the recommendation from his wife is a problem. > If she were really trying for a boondoggle, you'd think she would have tried > for Tahiti or at least Dubai. It may well be that they originally met > because they were both were representing the United States in the same part > of the world. It's another example of the current administration trying to > delegate responsibility. Perhaps his wife recommended him, but the > recommendation was accepted. > > Also, in my world, the fact that someone is likely to receive a light > sentence and perhaps ultimately to be pardoned does not mean that they did > nothing wrong. I will agree that in the larger scheme of things (thousands > dead over a knowing misrepresentation) the outing of Valerie Plame is rather > minor. However it is no less outrageous for all of that, and is merely a > small-scale symptom of the same disease -- cynical contempt for those who > serve this country. > > Dana > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211029 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
