The Freep investigate L'affaire Wilson

[maha]

On this thread: FR ALERT: 2002 Official Bio of Joseph Wilson mentions his wife.

The Freep found Joe Wilson's official biography on the web, and are making much merriment over the fact that the official bio says that he is married to the former Valerie Plame and has two children.

Well, say the Freep, if keeping her identity was such a big deal, why was her name in the official biography?

Of course, the mouth breathers miss the point. The secret blown in the Novak column was not Plame's marriage to Joseph Wilson; the secret was that she was a CIA operative. And the bio doesn't mention that.

Duh!

Anyway, the reason I was surfing for Wilson's bio is that Bush supporters allege that Wilson was unqualified for the assignment to investigate a Niger-Iraq uranium sale; therefore, his assignment must have been politically motivated.

Well, here's a section of Wilson's biography. Tell me he wasn't qualified:

Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. ...

He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe from 1992 to 1995. From 1988 to 1991, Ambassador Wilson served in Baghdad, Iraq as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy. During “Desert Shield” he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the negotiations that resulted in the release of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before the launching of “Desert Storm.”

Ambassador Wilson was a member of the U.S. Diplomatic Service from 1976 until 1998. His early assignments included Niamey, Niger, 1976-1978; Lome, Togo, 1978-79; the State Department Bureau of African Affairs, 1979-1981; and Pretoria, South Africa, 1981-1982.

In 1982, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in Bujumbura, Burundi. ... He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88, prior to his assignment to Baghdad.

... He is a graduate of the Senior Seminar (1992), the most advanced International Affairs training offered by the U.S. Government. He speaks fluent French.

Ambassador Wilson holds the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, the University of California, Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the American Foreign Service Association William R. Rivkin Award. ...

And this man was NOT QUALIFED to investigate a sale of uranium between Iraq and Niger? On what planet?

Yet the freeps and dittoheads and neocons see nothing wrong with the blatantly political appointment of David Kay to investigate WMDs in Iraq. Of course not.

[girl gone mad]

1. I had a conversation with my husband

about this last night. I mentioned that part of the GOP strategy to smear Wilson and one of the reasons Novak outed his wife was to present the assignment as nepotism.

It clearly wasn't nepotism, considering the CIA went to Ms. Plame and asked if her husband would be available, not the other way around. Wilson was more than qualified to take on this assignment, and it's ironic to have the GOP complain about nepotism in any way shape or form considering their appointed leader has only really gotten by in life on the credentials and connections of his Father.

The Freepers have been in denial about this all week, blaming Wilson himself for the outing, not just because his biography mentions her by name (they are too stupid to figure out that publishing her name was not the crime), but many of them also believe that Wilson was the person who outted her to Novak (really). Those idiots have gone from "what's the big deal, everyone in Washington knew she was a CIA agent", to "She was just a low level analyst, a secretary, it doesn't matter that she was outted," to this new phase of blaming Wilson and Plame for being the masterminds behind a plot to take down the White House by framing administration officials for treason. They've clearly lost their minds, but I like to think the level of denial at Freeperville is in diect proportion to the seriousness of the scandal at hand.

[tjdee]

2. All ambassadors' wives are spies, don't ya know.

THis was the first freeper thread I've clicked on in a while, and you know, they're not bright. Their reasoning isn't great and their oblivion to the truth is quite impressive.

Their defense of this seems to be what you said, and also that ambassadors' wives, everyone knows they're spies.

Yes, because it's not like the CIA TRAINS spies, or anything.

[Skittles]

3. HOW STUPID ARE THESE FREEPERS?????????????

her NAME is not the point. HER OCCUPATION IS.

[proud patriot]

4. THIS STUPID

:shrug:

[Robin Hood]

5. Oh Thank you.

A few days ago one of the local hate radio mofo's was going on and on about this. Saying that Wilson himself outed his wife based on his web bio. But here in this fine post you point out the truth in this matter.

Anyone can find out who you are married to, so it does no good to hide that fact, but few could find out if you were married to a covert CIA operative. Fucking freepers are no patriots, from the looks of this, they are treasonous.

[maha]

6. Freepers are traitors,

and we need to say that LOUD and PROUD and IN THEIR FACES.

[ComerPerro]

7. No one hates America more than FReepers

And I am not kidding. FReepers hate Americans, they hate free elections, they hate democracy, they hate free speech, and above all they hate freedom.