Joe Wilson is full of lies

Joe Wilson is a self-promoting partisan hack. He claimed that Dick Cheney sent to him Niger, that his wife, Valerie Plame, had no role in his selection and that his trip debunked the notion the Iraqis were seeking uranium.

All are lies that were exposed and refuted by the Senate intelligence committee.

As the Washington Post wrote in a March 7, 2007 (editorial): "Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging that the Bush administration had 'twisted,' if not invented, facts in making the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003 op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.

"A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false--and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife."

Despite clear evidence of his dishonesty, Joe Wilson got invited, and no doubt paid, by Cal Lutheran University to spin his yarn to yet another gullible overflow audience--and get more ink for his noxious fiction, plus praise for his "moral courage."

Whew!

According to your report, Wilson complained about a "critical absence of a political process" for Iraqis to work out their differences. Apparently he missed seeing those 11 million purple fingers of Iraqi citizens who elected a democratic government.

That Wilson would compare our efforts to establish a democratic government in the heart of the Middle East as an attempt to establish the U.S. as a "Roman empire" suggests he's contemplating a second career in standup comedy.

Readers who dispute my facts can have a look at www.attackmachine.com/ biglie_plame.htm if they're interested in truth, not Wilson's whoppers.
Jim Bass
Thousand Oaks