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Originally Posted by Bingo
actually I think I did miss the Wilson part ... truth be told
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I'll give you a run-down on the wilson thing. Joe Wilson was a foreign diplomat, and was sent to africa to investigate the claim of Iraq purchasing yellowcake from Niger. Wilson went, along with his wife valeri plame, and found zero evidence to back up that claim. He reported it, the report was ignored, so he wrote an op-ed piece in the new york times condemning the administration for lying about the information they had as a pretext for war. that's a treasonous act. For his effort, Robert Novak revealed that his wife was a cia operative working specifically on information about weapons of mass destruction. That information was leaked to him by 'two senior administration officials', one of which is currently under indictment (scooter libby). Also a treasonous act.
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However, I think it very possible to believe he has weapons, but use pick and choose information to sell it to the public under the idea that it has to be a national agreement before they can go in.
You don't work with the UN for years about reprecussions for not meeting resolutions without a belief that they had something to hide.
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Well, that might be the case, but before taking an entire nation to war against another, you might want to have more than 'belief'. or, you know, you might want to say "we have no new intellignece which would suggest saddam hussein is developing weapons of mass destruction, so LYING about it is probably not the best course of action."
There isn't much grey area here, despite what political leanings you might have. I'm socially left-wing and economically right-wing (under the context of existing systems), but treason is treason, a lie is a lie and both should be treated as such.