Scandal: Up In Plame
sgtstryker.com
Well, Stryker may feel he can't talk about the "Valerie Plame" smear job taking place, but as a bona fide civilian for the last 12 or so years, I'm under no such restrictions. But I have to wonder, what's to criticize? To put it bluntly, this is a manufactured smear job.
Let's talk about Mr. Wilson, shall we? Clinton appointee Joseph Wilson was chargé d'affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad during Desert Shield, and is currently an adjunct scholar at the Pro-Saudi Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Mr. Clifford May had this to say about Mr. Wilson:
--He was an outspoken opponent of U.S. military intervention in Iraq.
--He's an "adjunct scholar" at the Middle East Institute - which advocates for Saudi interests. The March 1, 2002 issue of the Saudi government-weekly Ain-Al Yaqeen lists the MEI as an "Islamic research institutes supported by the Kingdom."
--He's a vehement opponent of the Bush administration which, he wrote in the March 3, 2003 edition of the left-wing Nation magazine, has "imperial ambitions." Under President Bush, he added, the world worries that "America has entered one of it periods of historical madness."
--He also wrote that "neoconservatives" have "a stranglehold on the foreign policy of the Republican Party." He said that "the new imperialists will not rest until governments that ape our world view are implanted throughout the region, a breathtakingly ambitious undertaking, smacking of hubris in the extreme."
--He was recently the keynote speaker for the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a far-left group that opposed not only the U.S. military intervention in Iraq but also the sanctions - and even the no-fly zones that protected hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shias from being slaughtered by Saddam.
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In other words, Wilson is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind. And too many in the media are helping him and allies grind it.
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