Bush didn't bake up that "yellowcake" story
Unable to resist gloating a little more about the utter collapse of the Left's attempt to blame Karl Rove (or, failing Rove, any available member of the administration) for David Corn's "outing" of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative (in the first paragraph of a column which claimed- wrongly- that Robert Novak had already done so), Christopher Hitchens goes on to destroy another malicious Leftist lie:
the notion that there was really no good reason to believe the Niger "yellow cake" story Joe Wilson, Plame's husband- at her suggestion- was sent to Africa to investigate in the first place.
It's not so much the revisionist history- from the notion that only post-1991 WMD's were the reason why President Bush went to war in Iraq, to the notion that WMD's of any kind were the only reason he gave, to the entire, wholly ficticious
and entirely malicious Plame name blame game- that amazes me.
It's that the people who repeat the slanders actually seem to believe them. It's as if they'd been brain-wiped, and their memories of the buildup to the current Iraq war reprogrammed by a novelist who really, really disliked George W. Bush.
HT: Real Clear Politics
the notion that there was really no good reason to believe the Niger "yellow cake" story Joe Wilson, Plame's husband- at her suggestion- was sent to Africa to investigate in the first place.
It's not so much the revisionist history- from the notion that only post-1991 WMD's were the reason why President Bush went to war in Iraq, to the notion that WMD's of any kind were the only reason he gave, to the entire, wholly ficticious
and entirely malicious Plame name blame game- that amazes me.
It's that the people who repeat the slanders actually seem to believe them. It's as if they'd been brain-wiped, and their memories of the buildup to the current Iraq war reprogrammed by a novelist who really, really disliked George W. Bush.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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