Stop Believing Bush's Propaganda Parrots

The simple fact is, the White House was out to get the Wilson's, period, because Joe Wilson challenged one of their major lies in the run up to war.

Gerald Plessner:

September 13, 2006 - The president's propaganda parrots have been all agaggle over the news that someone outside the White House was the first government official to spill the beans on Valerie Plame Wilson, disclosing that she was a covert agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Bush administration wants you to think that, because Karl Rove didn't do it, no harm was done. But don't you believe it! To allow that impression to prevail would do an injustice, not only to Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson, his wife, who both have served their country with honor, but it would also be an insult to the patriotic Americans working every day to keep us safe and to protect vital and important secrets.

Ms. Plame, as you may recall, was involved in recruiting her husband, former Ambassador and White House staff member Joseph C. Wilson, IV, to go to North Africa in February 2002. While there , he was to check the accuracy of intelligence that alleged that the Saddam Hussein regime had tried to buy yellow cake uranium, an ingredient of nuclear weaponry, from the government of Niger.

The administration was working aggressively in early 2002 to build a case for invading Iraq. As we now know, President Bush was using often flimsy and inaccurate evidence to convince Americans and the world of the necessity of attacking Iraq.

George W. Bush and the neo-conservatives in his inner circle, were eager to use the yellow cake allegation and they hoped that Wilson's trip would debunk the skeptics in the intelligence community about its authenticity.