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To: Dr. Id who wrote (141486)	7/26/2004 12:03:46 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There were a mixture of motives in going in. It was not purely humanitarian, but that does not mean that humanitarian considerations were not in the mix. They certainly were for me, in supporting the action.

To: Dr. Id who wrote (141486)	7/26/2004 12:15:12 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A lot of brass' "Last fall, Joe Wilson accepted the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling from the Nation Institute (affiliated with the left-wing magazine The Nation), named after the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre," National Review notes in an editorial. "This was around the same time that Wilson launched a Web site called 'RestoreHonesty.com' — paid for by the Kerry campaign, for which he was an official surrogate — in which the author of 'The Politics of Truth' tells visitors, 'Some people have said I was courageous to speak truth to the power of the Bush White House. But let me tell you, what I have done doesn't hold a candle to the courage that John Kerry showed as a young man and throughout his political career.' "Well, hold on. It takes a lot of brass to boast about your honesty that much, and about such grave subjects, while lying as brazenly as it now appears Wilson has. The Senate and Butler reports reveal that Wilson's story was false on all the central facts. Wilson's CIA-operative wife did tout him for the Niger trip. Wilson's report did not 'debunk' the claim that Iraq had sought uranium; indeed his trip 'bolstered' the CIA's concerns, according to reports. Wilson told the press that he saw forged documents that he could not possibly have seen," the magazine said. "Wilson has made fools out of countless prominent journalists who were so eager to call President Bush a liar that they allowed themselves to be seduced by one. Now Wilson is offering a fog of Clintonian evasions, rebutting allegations not made and declaring that the press misquoted him. The press has generally been silent about the recent revelations, as has the Kerry campaign."