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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (68952)	10/28/2005 4:53:43 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Re: "Of course Wilson can't talk about it, it's classified. If he were to tell some TV reporter his wife was a covert agent...Wilson could however, say that now that her cover is blown she is no longer covert." Dude, you are in left field here. This interview is from July 2005. The very story has been ABOUT who revealed the name of a covert agent. Covert status for her is a known allegation here. When Wolfe suggested she wasn't covert for some years, Wilson failed to deny it even though his anger and your anger is supposedly because the notion that she still was covert was already spilled beans(mind you, the '82 law in question requires her to be overseas, and we know she was stateside with her new husband since '97, where neighbors have watched her play with her growing kids all along). It seems she likely may well have worked at Langley coordinating actual covert agents in some fashion, which might be significant here). Truthfully, Wilson didn't say the Vice President sent him, but when folks on the left claimed he'd said it, the right wing said indeed that if so, in essence, that was a lie. This is all symantic mix-up bullcrap, originating from false interpretations of Wilsons words offered first from the left. Re: "There was no Saddam nuclear program at all." In fact, in the same show in which Blitzer interviewed Wilson, He also interviewed Douglas Feith, "one of the key strategists leading up to the war in Iraq," the undersecretary for defense policy. Part of the exchange went like this (and you'll see from the bolded that even Wolf Blitzer understands that you are wrong above): "BLITZER: But when whole premise of the war, as you, yourself, said in the weeks leading up to the war, was to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological, nuclear capabilities -- none of which have existed. FEITH: No, that's not accurate. BLITZER: Well, let me read to you what you said the "New Yorker". At least you were quoted as saying, "By using military force -- what we would be using military power for, if we have to, would be the goals the president has talked about, particularly the elimination of the chemical and biological weapons, and preventing Iraq from getting nuclear weapons." FEITH: Right. And the Iraqis -- the Saddam Hussein regime -- had chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. And, as you know, the Duelfer report concluded that. BLITZER: But no stockpiles. FEITH: What they didn't have is stockpiles. BLITZER: Well that's a significant difference. FEITH: Well, how significant it is, is an issue. As you know, if you have the ability -- if you have dual-use facilities, if you have the ability to produce insecticide or fertilizer, you have the ability to produce chemical and biological weapons stockpiles. Saddam had the programs. He had the capability. He had developed them and used those weapons in the past. I don't think you can take an enormous amount of comfort if you're the president of the United States and you're worried about Saddam Hussein possibly providing those kinds of weapons to terrorists..." transcripts.cnn.com Dan B.