Iraq Reviews > Ledeen Blows It Out

http://dailypundit.com [Daily Pundit] We refused to see it, we deliberately and systematically blinded ourselves to it, and this “we” encompasses them all, president and vice president, national security advisers, secretaries of defense and state and their top aides (can anyone forget the incredible claim from Powell’s Deputy, Richard Armitage-the man who outed Valerie Plame to Robert Novack and then clammed up about it, thereby sending Judy Miller to prison and Scooter Libby to trial””that “Iran is a democracy,” and his public announcement that the Iranians would soon turn over top al Qaeda terrorists to our criminal justice system?), and the Intelligence (sic) Community.

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[Davidcorn.com] David Corn: One can picture Wilson, and Corn, going Òwink, wink,Ó with their fingers crossed behind their backs. Corn claims today ÒI did not state as a fact the Valerie Wilson was a ÔcovertÕ officer or CIA employee of any kind.Ó Yet he wrote in July 2003, ÒWilson caused problems for the White House, and his wife was outed as an undercover CIA officer.Ó Perhaps he should re-peruse his own article. Beginning in July 2003 and through today in hyping his book, Corn uses the technique of interchanging various intelligence employee and agent status terms, presumably attempting to make them appear as synonyms to the uneducated in national security. This approach told me that for some reason he was attempting to obfuscate the issue.

Mediamatters.orghttp://mediamatters.org [Mediamatters.org] Media Matters - Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage ...: speech that Colin Powell gave, a few months prior, in which he staked his reputation on the fact that Iraq had chemical weapons stockpiles, biological weapons and was looking for nuclear weapons. This was a searing moment in Colin Powell's political career and suddenly, Armitage is forced to defend that, and I think he -- and this was not -- again, as Mort points out, this was not a Rove-directed, Libby-directed conspiracy, which comes out also when you -- from what we've heard from them, it sounds like it was almost a beside the point, it wasn't a directed matter, even from them.

[Turcopolier.typepad.com] Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007: How the "Game" is played?: At a minimum there has been every indication of a Conspiracy to Create enough Propaganda to Mislead the Congress and the People of the Untied States to Gain Support for an Invasion of Iraq..by Playing off of the EMOTIONS of 9/11 , The Public Fear of More Terrorists Acts, and the so called Saddam..WMD Connection we all heard repeated hundreds of times..

[Hannah.smith-family.com] Hannah's Blog: Rice with Yellow Cake: Bush says in his State of the Union litany on the dangers of Iraq, ?has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium .

Gseis.ucla.eduhttp://www.gseis.ucla.edu [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: washingtonpost.com: Bush, Powell Defend Remark On Iraq's Weapons Capability .and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

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