Please give feedback on this LTTE re: Rove/Plame/DSM...

[tk2kewl]

As special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald continues to pursue Karl Rove and others who apparently blew the cover of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent working to prevent the proliferation of WMD, it is important to consider how this action relates to this assertion in the Downing Street Memos regarding Bush's justification for war in Iraq: "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The outing of Plame was used in an attempt by the Bush administration to discredit her husband Joseph Wilson, who had criticized the administration's assertion that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium in Niger. In the end even the Bush administration has admitted that the Niger documents turned out to be phony.

It seems as though Wilson's criticism of the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Niger, and the subsequent outing of Plame by the White House, corroborate the Downing Street Memos' characterization that the facts and intelligence were being "fixed" to support a predetermined policy for war. Furthermore, it seems to show that the White House will stop at nothing when it comes to silencing its critics, not even jeopardizing national security by compromising a CIA working to prevent the spread of WMD.



Edit for spelling

[bear425]

1. I like the fact that you tie in the Downing Street Memo

and the part about silencing critics even to the extent of jeopardizing national security. Sounds good. Is Valarie spelled correctly?

[tk2kewl]

4. i think it might be Valerie, I'll double check

[bear425]

6. Yes, it's Valerie. Now, I think it's perfect. ;-) n/t

[Jade Fox]

2. Very good.

One nit-picky suggestion: Comma after Joseph Wilson in the second
paragraph.

Thanks for your efforts on all our behalfs (behaves?). :)

[DawgHouse]

3. Concise and straight to the point!

Good job!

[tk2kewl]

5. thanks... comma added

[Booster]

7. Very good letter. You got all the points needed in very few words

and we all know the attention span of most Americans is about a minute and a half. Well done.

[tk2kewl]

8. thanks... gotta stay under 250 words for my paper too

[sniffa]

9. i'd change phony - maybe use 'faLse' or 'forgeries'

that's my onLy addition. Looks good. :thumbsup:

i went for the softer approach - an appeaL to americans with any common sense.