Remember Joseph Wilson? He’s the guy who the CIA sent over to Niger to find out if Saddam’s agents were attempting to buy yellowcake from that country for Iraq’s nuclear weapons program. Yellowcake, FYI, is an early step toward enriching uranium into reactor fuel or, taken further, weapons-grade (90% enriched U-235) material. His report’s conclusions contributed to the following statement in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Speech: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Wilson later went public with statements that his wife, a CIA employee whose name was later leaked to reporters, had nothing to do with his selection for the mission, and slammed the Bush Administration for “skewing” the intelligence reports to make a case for going to war to depose Saddam.
Now comes word that the Washington Post (a LIBERAL newspaper) did some digging into Wilson’s allegations, and guess what? HE LIED!
In the Post’s report, it turns out that the CIA relied on foreign intelligence reports to make its assertions. Contrary to what liberals want you to believe, Saddam’s WMD efforts were NOT the sole reason we deposed him.
Along the same lines, we didn’t go to war against Hitler solely because he was going to build an atomic bomb. When FDR read Einstein’s letter in 1939 (while we were still at peace), he correctly concluded that we dare not take the chance to wait and see. Only AFTER THE WAR did we find out that Hitler blew off his atomic bomb program “...because it was Jewish science.”
Should it surprise you that the Wilson story isn’t going very far in the mainstream media? They won’t give it Page 1 Headlines because they want to see President Bush defeated at any cost. As a result, it’s up to other outlets (such as Blogs for Bush, which this blog is a member of) to get the story out to the readers.
In this day and age where the WMD process has been disseminated down to the terrorists, we dare not take the chance to wait and see for the next time they will strike. We must go after them. That is what President Bush has been doing and continues to do.
Can the Democrats say the same about Senator Kerry? Oh yeah, he’ll just have John Edwards haul them into court....