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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:18 PM
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Joseph Wilson's book out next Friday 4/30
It's coming out a full month earlier than the planned release of May 20th.
"The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity"


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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:24 PM
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1. lets see...
if he will get the Riachard Clarke/Bob Woodward treatment by tyhe media...obviously it is going to be a very negative book for Bush so the "liberal" will have to work overtime igmoring and lieing about the facts of the book.
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zydeco Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 09:56 PM
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20. Did Joe Wilson's book have to be vetted
by the WH?
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:26 PM
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2. The Politics of Truth
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:30 PM
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3. I can't wait!
Anybody notice how the guys who come out and expose Team Bush are cool and unshakable? In cotrast notice how shrill and hysterical the Bush apologists are getting?

I think it is delicious. Looking forward to Joe's book!

Julie
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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:32 PM
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4. cool and unshakable
they are like that because they have the FACTS in their side....no need for them to get hysterical.
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:44 PM
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5. Joe Wilson is a very wise and articulate man
Looking forward to this one.
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revcarol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:46 PM
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6. This one will beat Woodward's hands down...
Edited on Sun Apr-25-04 05:48 PM by revcarol
and I will say, "I TOLD YOU SO."

eDIT: ON c-sPAN BOOK NOTES SOON. sAW IT "ADVERTISED."
See if Brian can take down THIS guy.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 05:51 PM
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7. Hope this one knocks junior back to his mommy
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:03 PM
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8. Criminal Indictements?
I wonder if anyone will be charged with outing Wilson's wife, before the election?
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:47 PM
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13. I certainly hope so!
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:06 PM
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9. "That MFer Wilson and
his bitch are just money grubbing for book sales and TV appearances!"

Just preparing everyone for the inevitable smears from the empty ones.
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:10 PM
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10. if anything brings down this misadministration
Edited on Sun Apr-25-04 06:11 PM by newsguyatl
it's the cia leak story -- and this book very well might be the smoking gun.

on edit: do you have a link about its releasing early>?
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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:10 PM
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11. This will be the book that seriously hurts Bush, IMO.
Both Clarke and Woodward (and even O'Neil) are for all intents and purposes, Republicans. They still have some loyalty towards this administration, and therefore, won't say all that has to be said. Ambassador Wilson, however, has NO LOYALTIES whatsoever toward this administration. They came after his family and from what I have seen, he has not and will not back down from his assertions.

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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 06:31 PM
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12. kick
this dropped way too fast
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Narraback Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 07:44 PM
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14. Kick
Edited on Sun Apr-25-04 07:44 PM by Narraback
It did drop too fast.
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BabsSong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 07:44 PM
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15. Yes, looking forward to it and expect that it will be waived off by
the public like everything else (thanks to the media). And in the end, I predict, Bush will gain in the polls. This is getting to be laughable and predictable. In Bush's next four years, let "them all eat cake". They have had the warnings but they instead the American people use the warnings to "rally around THEIR President". You can't help the stupid.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 07:53 PM
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16. isn't a kitty kelly expose also due to be published soon?
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 11:34 PM
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26. I just read where Kelley's book will come out in September
It's called, "The Family." Hers will be the juiciest of all, full of gossip. She had lunch with Neil's ex, too.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 09:09 PM
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17. AwwwRrrriiiiightttttttttt!! n/t
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cushla_machree Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 09:42 PM
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18. oh please!
He is just telling lies to promote his new book
He obviously has sour grapes.

or maybe he just has a problem with that "african american woman"

:)

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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 09:45 PM
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19. Joe Wilson was out of the loop on a lot of things.
Seriously.

Love,

The Whole Bush Administration
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 09:58 PM
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21. what wilson has on his side
he has already been thru all the news shows and talked about this already, they already did an attack job on him when he first made the rounds, so the second time wont be as effective. secondly it was before the others, oniel, clark, dean, phillips........the story is an old story, adn i assume he will be bringing more of that facts and some interestingly new

so i think bush wont be able to diss him the way the did the first time he came out to speak

people know more on iraq war since he first came out too

will be intersting, always interesting
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 10:31 PM
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22. WILSON WILL REVEAL THE NAME OF THE OFFICIAL WHO OUTED PLAME
in his book. I saw him mention this last month. He said it is a "senior whitehouse official" BA HA HA HA HA.

Then it will be a lot easier for Bush to figure out who did this and he can take "appropriate action"


:evilgrin:
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 10:43 PM
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25. This is the bombshell!!!
cant wait
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 10:34 PM
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23. Now this is one I'll buy! Didn't waste my money on Woody, but this
is a good guy - brave - I hope you all buy his book!
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 10:39 PM
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24. Blurb from Amazon.com on Wilson's book:
snip....
As the acting ambassador to Iraq, Wilson was the last American official to meet with Saddam before Desert Storm in 1990. He successfully parried the dictator’s threats to use American hostages as human shields against U.S. bombing and was given a patriot’s welcome by President George H. W. Bush on his homecoming. Yet today he finds himself in a battle with his own government.

Why? Because he called a lie a lie.

When President George W. Bush claimed in the now notorious sixteen words in his 2003 State of the Union address that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," Wilson could not stand by silently. For at the request of the CIA he himself had traveled to Niger the previous year and found no evidence to support the rumor of a uranium deal. In a New York Times op-ed, "What I Didn’t Find in Africa," he told the nation about that trip and his findings. The White House retaliated viciously. Seeking revenge against Wilson and trying to intimidate intelligence professionals who had begun telling reporters of prewar pressure to skew their analyses of the threat posed by Iraq, senior administration officials did the unthinkable: They disclosed the undercover status of Wilson’s wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, to members of the press. Columnist Robert Novak then published the leak, blew Plame’s cover, and abetted the administration’s possible violation of federal law.

But Wilson still wouldn’t back down. He withstood the personal attacks and called on the White House to acknowledge the truth about the sixteen words. In televised interviews and newspaper commentaries he argued that the administration had fabricated much more than the uranium claim, indeed had manipulated intelligence to bolster its case for invading Iraq. Now he continues his fight in this groundbreaking book as he reveals the dangers to the nation bred by officials in a war-hungry White House—Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, and George W. Bush himself—in an alarming attempt to impose their will. Yet Wilson maintains faith in his fellow citizens and the American ideals he represented for two decades abroad. With inspiring fervor he urges all Americans to become involved in the vigorous process of democracy, for ultimately, he argues, the strength of the nation lies in the will of its people.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078671378X/qid=1082950607/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9505966-0991219?v=glance&s=books#product-details
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-26-04 12:03 AM
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28. my bet is scooter
though i would love for it to be rove

cheney can get got with his energy to do
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-04 11:48 PM
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27. KICK!!!!
Can't wait for this one...
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-26-04 12:05 AM
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29. I believe if Ambassador Wilson had backed down on calling the 16 words...
He and his wife were preemptively earmarked by the WH as the fall guys for the so called intelligence misinformation used as the centerpiece in the SOU for the run up to the Iraq war.
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