Democratic Talking Point: The treatment of Wilson and Plame by the Bush

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Administration merely underscores WHY they were being punished: for Wilson speaking truth that contradicted the reason offered for going to war, WMDs, which was all based on lies.

Not mistaken intelligence. LIES. Which were known then and now.


The War in Iraq. Based on Lies.


Makes it simple, and sifts through the various "confusion" talking points on who sent Wilson where etc. and who actually said whose name instead of identifying them as a wife etc.


War in Iraq. Based on Lies.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050801&s=editorial080105
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Suddenly, everybody in Washington is an expert on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the 1982 law making it a crime to knowingly disclose the identity of a clandestine intelligence agent. And everybody in town has a pet theory on exactly who in the Bush administration leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame and where and how they did it. It was Karl Rove, in the West Wing, with the lead pipe. No, wait-- it was Ari Fleischer, on Air Force One, with the candlestick.

Of course, this is the way the right wing wants it: Their talking points on the Plame scandal are designed to confuse.
(snip)

But the court of public opinion is another matter. Here, the GOP's focus on narrow legal definitions and how they may or may not apply to the actions of a few individuals, all of which obscures a broader, more important story--the story of how this administration misled the public in order to make a convincing case for war in Iraq.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

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