[antimedia] antimedia: Speaking of the lying Joe Wilson....

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Posted by antimedia:
Speaking of the lying Joe Wilson....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1153888020.shtml


   ....Christopher Hitchens absolutely [1]skewers this laughable excuse
   for a diplomat. Using two extremely credible European sources
   completely unrelated to the US, much less the Bush administration,
   Hitchens shows how laughable Wilson's "report" was and how completely
   clueless Wilson was about the entire Niger affair.
   He closes with this.

     This means that both pillars of the biggest scandal-mongering
     effort yet mounted by the "anti-war" movementâthe twin allegations
     of a false story exposed by Wilson and then of a state-run vendetta
     undertaken against him and the lady wife who dispatched him on the
     missionâare in irretrievable ruins. The truth is the exact polar
     opposite. The original Niger connection was both authentic and
     important, and Wilson's utter failure to grasp it or even examine
     it was not enough to make Karl Rove even turn over in bed. All the
     work of the supposed "outing" was inadvertently performed by
     Wilson's admirer Robert Novak. Of course, one defends the Bush
     administration at one's own peril. Thanks largely to Stephen
     Hadley, assistant to the president for national security affairs,
     our incompetent and divided government grew so nervous as to disown
     the words that appeared in the 2003 State of the Union address. But
     the facts are still the facts, and it is high time that they
     received one-millionth of the attention that the "Plamegate" farce
     has garnered.

   Hitchens' work needs no further comment.

References

   1. http://www.slate.com/id/2146475/fr/nl/