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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (258036)	11/2/2005 11:47:49 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573737

re: My guess is that Joe Wilson wanted to be a hero within the CIA, but he wasn't getting anywhere with the current administration. So he arranges his wife to give him a trip to Nigeria just so he can "prove" the Bush administration wrong and perhaps get a better position in a future Kerry administration. Kerry lost, so there went that idea. Where did you come up with that?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (258036)	11/2/2005 12:39:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573737

My guess is that Joe Wilson wanted to be a hero within the CIA, but he wasn't getting anywhere with the current administration. I don't understand. Joe Wilson was a career diplomat. He was an ambassador to Gabon [I think] under Bush I. Why would he want to look good to the CIA? Given his background, that would not a reasonable career move. So he arranges his wife to give him a trip to Nigeria just so he can "prove" the Bush administration wrong and perhaps get a better position in a future Kerry administration. Kerry lost, so there went that idea. Certainly, an imaginative perspective............but if true, I would say Wilson is a serious and very speculative gambler. When this all happened, Kerry hadn't been picked yet to run for president.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (258036)	11/2/2005 4:28:47 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573737

>So he arranges his wife to give him a trip to Nigeria just so he can "prove" the Bush administration wrong Well, he didn't "prove" it. He proved it. Or at least he was right. -Z