Monday, September 29, 2003

Rush not to judgment, lest ye be rushed…

Partisan Politics

Or something.  Drudge has linked to an article by Clifford May in the National review online, which suggests that the fact that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA was not exactly, well, secret.  If this is the case, then there was no “outing” of a CIA agent, and therefore no treason and no reason for getting our collective panties in a bunch. 

Remember that the primary focus of this is still the uraniumgate pseudo-scandal, and that the British still insist that their intelligence was correct, and that Saddam was trying to buy Uranium somewhere in Africa.  Also, Wilson, by his own admission, spent several days drinking mint tea and talking to people, and on the basis of this thorough investigation concluded that Saddam wasn’t trying to get the fissionable materials.  It sounds as if Wilson, who was a vocal opponent of the administration before his mission, was doing a decent job of discrediting himself before any of this happened, which makes you wonder why someone like Karl Rove would go to this effort to do it himself.  If Karl Rove is the satanically brilliant Machiavel with his hand working the strings controlling marionette Bush, why would he be so stupid as to commit an easily discovered treasonous act?  We have a problem with conflicting conspiracy modes.

Unless I hear a lot more evidence, or at least a significant amount of convincing evidence, this goes into my unlikely at best folder.  It tastes a lot like the BUSH LIED!!! story we’ve been hearing so much of lately. 


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/03 at 05:12 PM
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