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If you haven’t already read Joe Wilson’s speech of June 10, 2003, you need to before you can understand my opinion on the Libby indictment.

You can find it here.

Some hilites:

• "you see Tony Blair’s government fall because in the U.K. it is a big story, there will be some ramifications"
• Now here in the United States on September 11, 2001, we suffered the loss of two buildings in New York and severe damage to one building in Washington and we suffered the loss of roughly 3,000 lives. In Iraq during the Shock and Awe bombing campaign, we now know that over 3,000 Iraqis were killed. . .and Lord knows how many buildings in downtown Baghdad and elsewhere were destroyed. . .how can we possibly assume that the anger that we felt when 3,000 of our fellow citizens were killed is not going to be felt in spades–not just in Iraq where 3,000 deaths represents to the relative population 10 times the number of deaths we suffered in our terrorist attack; or throughout the rest of the world. . .Of course we didn’t find any terrorists when we got to Iraq, just as we haven’t yet found any weapons of mass destruction, though on that score I remain of the view that we will find chemical and biological weapons, and we may well find something that indicates that Saddam’s regime maintained an interest in nuclear weapons–not surprising if you live in a part of the world where you do have a nuclear-armed country, an enemy of yours, which is just a country away from you."
• "The price of gold jewelry in Habbaniya is cheaper than it is anywhere else in the world. And that is because the middle class has had to liquidate all their assets. In Iraq, like in many other parts of the world, people keep their assets, their wealth, in gold. . ."
• "And even our military–and I speak to a lot of them; I used to be the political advisor to the commander in chief of US Armed Forces, Europe and I still have contacts in the command–even some of our military officers were absolutely dismayed at the slaughter they were inflicting upon poorly-trained, poorly-equipped Iraqi conscripts on the way up there."
• "The real agenda in all this, of course, was to redraw the political map of the Middle East. Now that is code, whether you like it or not, but it is code for putting into place the strategy memorandum which was done by Richard Perle and his study group in the mid-90s, which was called ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for the Realm’. And what it is, cut to the quick, is if you take out some of these countries, or some of these governments, that are antagonistic to Israel, then you provide the Israeli government with greater wherewithal to impose its terms and conditions on the Palestinian people. . .But that is the real agenda. You can put weapons of mass destruction out there, you can put terrorism out there, you can put liberation out there. Weapons of mass destruction got hard-headed realists on board, through a bunch of lies. . ."
• "on the last one [i.e. on the last question about what whistelblowers need to do], the administration was very careful about only talking, on the forgery, only talking at the Presidential level about uranium sales from Africa, until such time as it came out that they were talking about Niger, and then that was subsequently denied by the State Department, it was difficult to sort of make the case, although I think some of the people inside could have probably talked about it a little bit more openly ahead of time. The real problem with this is how this intelligence was used once it got in the hands of the policymakers, and clearly this was emphasized–the rumor part of it, the RUMINT was emphasized, and the debunking of it was just set aside. I think it probably has legs, too, because of the course the press operates on profits, and if they can make a scandal out of this they’ll do it, you know, that’ll be great. And you already hear people talking about the ‘i’ word."
• "On the other ones, the geopolitical situation, I think there are a number of issues at play; there’s a number of competing agendas. One is the remaking of the map of the Middle East for Israeli security, and my fear is that when it becomes increasingly apparent that this was all done to make Sharon’s life easier and that American soldiers are dying in order to enable Sharon to impose his terms upon the Palestinians that people will wonder why it is American boys and girls are dying for Israel and that will undercut a strategic relationship and a moral obligation that we’ve had towards Israel for 55 years. I think it’s a terribly flawed strategy."

Now, the question I have is how could have Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Libby have dealt with this guy without understanding how he wound up in Africa in the first place.  Joe Wilson OBVIOUSLY had an agenda before he went.  You just don’t dream this stuff up and wing it.  He’s anti-semetic.  He always has been.  Iraq had attacked Israel in the past, Hussein had repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.  THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL JOE WILSON SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THAT TRIP TO NIGERIA.  NONE.  And, in the process of figuring out how Joe Wilson got that assignment, Libby is indicted.

This is a sham.  The person who should have been indicted for outing a "covert CIA operative" is Joe Wilson.

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