Now what!
When and if historians look back on this time period let’s say the first ten years of this decade at this rate. They are going to wonder, “ What were they thinking?” Day after day a new issue, scandal or some grave act of injustice is discovered and continues to fall on deaf ears.
Too many of us are concerned with Anna Nicole, Britney, yada yada to focus on what is unraveling right before our eyes. Case in point the Libby verdict I am referring to I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby who was convicted for lying to the F.B.I. which last time I check was a pretty important organization.
If you are not in the know Libby is the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and along with Karl Rove and Mr. Cheney launch a smear campaign against the first person to unmask one of the many untruths that President Bush used to justify invading Iraq.
All of this revolves around a Joseph Wilson IV a career diplomat, who was sent by the State Department in 2002 to check out a British intelligence report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the government of Niger for a secret nuclear weapons program. The specter of a nuclear-armed Iraq was central to US case for rushing to war. In July 2003 Mr. Wilson wrote an article for the NY Times that what he had found did not support that claim.
Testimony form the trial shows that Cheney orchestrated an assault on Mr. Wilson’s creditability with the help of Libby and a few others while whispering to journalist that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the C.I.A. and that was the reason he had been chosen for the trip.
FOCUS POINT EVERYONE THIS MEANS:
Faulty intelligence did not dupe this administration; at the very least, it hand picked and hyped intelligence to justify the war. What Wilson found and follow up investigations confirmed was that there was one trip in 1999 not recently but four years before Bush’s statement by an Iraqi official to Niger and during that trip, uranium was never discovered…
Too many of us are concerned with Anna Nicole, Britney, yada yada to focus on what is unraveling right before our eyes. Case in point the Libby verdict I am referring to I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby who was convicted for lying to the F.B.I. which last time I check was a pretty important organization.
If you are not in the know Libby is the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and along with Karl Rove and Mr. Cheney launch a smear campaign against the first person to unmask one of the many untruths that President Bush used to justify invading Iraq.
All of this revolves around a Joseph Wilson IV a career diplomat, who was sent by the State Department in 2002 to check out a British intelligence report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the government of Niger for a secret nuclear weapons program. The specter of a nuclear-armed Iraq was central to US case for rushing to war. In July 2003 Mr. Wilson wrote an article for the NY Times that what he had found did not support that claim.
Testimony form the trial shows that Cheney orchestrated an assault on Mr. Wilson’s creditability with the help of Libby and a few others while whispering to journalist that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the C.I.A. and that was the reason he had been chosen for the trip.
FOCUS POINT EVERYONE THIS MEANS:
Faulty intelligence did not dupe this administration; at the very least, it hand picked and hyped intelligence to justify the war. What Wilson found and follow up investigations confirmed was that there was one trip in 1999 not recently but four years before Bush’s statement by an Iraqi official to Niger and during that trip, uranium was never discovered…
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