Bush right; Democrats wrong! Bush good; Joseph Wilson liar!
It Was “A Good Leak” and “PRESIDENT BUSH was right” shouts the WaPo editorial of today. It was “A Good Leak”, NOT a scandal, for George W. Bush to declassify some intelligence! No, Bushies, you have not died and gone to heaven. However, at this very moment in the dark caves and caverns of the blogosphere, moonbats are eating out their own lily-livered hearts at such betrayal by their own beloved WaPo.
“PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do.” ~~The Washington Post
And that is not all that WaPo wrote:
- The “charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling” against the Bush administration are “hyperbolic”.
- “There was nothing illegal or even particularly unusual about that …”
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson is the villain! “The material that Mr. Bush ordered declassified established, as have several subsequent investigations, that Mr. Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth. In fact, his report supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium.”
- Joseph Wilson’s false allegations let to 2 1/2 years of investigation by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald at the conclusion of which Mr. Fitzgerald reported that there was no evidence to support Mr. Wilson’s charge.
- Special Counsel Fitzgerald disclosed in last week’s court filings that President Bush did NOT authorize the leak of Ms. Plame’s identity. “Mr. Libby’s motive in allegedly disclosing her name to reporters, Mr. Fitzgerald said, was to disprove yet another false assertion, that Mr. Wilson had been dispatched to Niger by Mr. Cheney. In fact Mr. Wilson was recommended for the trip by his wife.”
- About those who seek to prove that the grounds for overthrowing Saddam Hussein were bogus the WaPo writes: “It’s unfortunate that those who seek to prove the latter would now claim that Mr. Bush did something wrong by releasing for public review some of the intelligence he used in making his most momentous decision.”
There you have it - Bush was right and Ambassador Wilson was lying all the time, according to “The Washington Post” editorial of 9 April 2006. Remember when Kerfuffles said that she suspected that the great child philosopher, Harry Potter, was going to be proved right in the end? He who said “Blessed be the giver, Cursed be the thief, May fortune smile upon the true, and liars come to grief” spoke wisely.
See Lady Spy Plame and the Kerfuffles for more. There is even more Joseph Wilson lunacy at “The Adventures of Lady Spy Plame and the Frog”.
“Expose the Left” has the video of Joseph Wilsons’s response on “This Week” today. Linked at Mudville Gazette’s Open Post.
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I am about to comment on this same editorial in my own blog, but I am beginning to think that the Washington Post is worth less & less time to focus on at all.
This editorial smacks of ideological meddling at the top. This, to me, read more like RNC talking points than anything else.
I also find it curious that they never refer to the fact that only selectively partisan elements of that classified report were leaked 10 days in advance of the ‘official’ declassification.
However, in a Bush PR piece, one would not expect that type of honest disclosure.
Comment by scootmandubious — April 9, 2006 @ 11:51 am
Bush’s Duty
In the end this is another one of the lefts smear campaigns that they throw on the wall hoping it will stick. This one missed the mark once again and make them look even more foolish.
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Trackback by Flopping Aces — April 9, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
Now the Dems are complaining that WaPo turned Ambassador Joseph Wilson into Darth Vader. In their view, WaPo itself has gone over to the dark side.
“Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” indeed. As you peer through Alice’s looking glass you will find that pigs now have wings. How else to explain WaPo’s indiscretion, as it could not possibly be that their comments are true, could it?
Comment by Kerfuffles — April 9, 2006 @ 3:23 pm
Aside from the FACT that the Washington Post chose to repeat misinformation about Plamegate repudiated on page one of the same paper, they left out a few glaring details in their ridiculous approval of Valerie Plame’s outing for political gain.
Leaking Valerie Plame’s name took a valuable resource out of the REAL war on terror. This action approved by the President and Vice President has endangered the lives of every American citizen, both at home and abroad.
Leaking Plame’s name also blew her front cover employer, Brewster Jennings & Associates. It was Robert Novak, American traitor, and political commentator hack, who in collusion with Bush and Cheney, first published the highly classified information.
It has been suggested that there were other resources within the CIA who were also working undercover as non-official cover operative” (NOC) as employees of Brewster Jennings. It has also been suggested that once their undercover status was compromised, they were quickly captured and eliminated, thus multiplying the damage done to the CIA’s ability to gather valuable information in the Mid East.
The outing of Plame destroyed all trust the CIA had for the Bush/Cheney administration. Why would they now put their lives on the line as NOCs knowing that at any time, their cover could also be blown for political gain, thus ending their careers and possibly ending their lives as well?
But there’s more!
Plame… ‘was a long-term proprietary and deep-cover NOC - well established and consistently producing “take” from ARAMCO (and who knows what else in Saudi Arabia). It was destroyed with a motive of personal vengeance (there may have been other motives) by someone inside the White House.
From the CIA’s point of view, at a time when Saudi Arabia is one of the three or four countries of highest interest to the US, the Plame operation was irreplaceable.
Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO.
The Boston Globe reported that in 2001 ARAMCO had signed a $140 million multi-year contract with Halliburton, then chaired by Dick Cheney, to develop a new oil field. Halliburton does a lot of business in Saudi Arabia. Current estimates of Halliburton contracts or joint ventures in the country run into the tens of billions of dollars.
So do the fortunes of some shady figures from the Bush family’s past.
As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia’s former treasurer and the nation’s largest banker, has been reported in several places to be Osama bin Laden’s brother in law.
ARAMCO is the largest oil group in the world, a state-owned Saudi company in partnership with four major US oil companies.
Another one of Aramco’s partners is Chevron-Texaco which gave up one of its board members, Condoleezza Rice, when she became the National Security Advisor to George Bush.
All of ARAMCO’s key decisions are made by the Saudi royal family while US oil expertise, personnel and technology keeps the cash coming in and the oil going out. ARAMCO operates, manages, and maintains virtually all Saudi oil fields – 25% of all the oil on the planet.’
www.oilempire.us/plame.html
Also, let’s not forget the long term friendship and business partnerships between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.
Knowing all of this, how can anyone in their right mind approve of Bush and Cheney’s treasonous behavior of outing Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings for political gain?
Comment by KEVIN SCHMIDT, STERLING VA — April 9, 2006 @ 5:08 pm
Kevin Schmidt, Sterling VA - You don’t sound like “a Republican troll” to me. Why is it that over at “Daily Kos” you are described as such and worse? Kevin Schmidt Is An Impostor
As for Valerie Plame’s “so-called” covert status, employees of the C.I.A., covert or not, should not be plotting against their own government. The CIA under the Clinton administration became an agency run-amok and because it was engaged in political intrigues in Washington is probably why it had neither time, resources nor ambition to find the intelligence that could have saved us from September 11th and the previous attacks upon America.
Comment by Kerfuffles — April 9, 2006 @ 5:43 pm
Plame was hardly covert. I do so love the defense of a rogue CIA agent by the left.
Comment by SGT Ted — April 9, 2006 @ 9:04 pm