Plame Court Action Denied

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The taintes source of GIGO’s says :

Wissam al-Zahawie, Iraq’s ambassador to the Vatican, paid a call on the prime minister of Niger. The rest of his argument is supposition, and his chief deduction is that there was only one matter that could have prompted Zahawie’s trip to Niger: Saddam’s desire to stock up on the single major export of that African country—yellowcake uranium.

For what it’s worth, Zahawie says he has a simple explanation for the trip: He’d traveled to four African nations—not just Niger—hoping to convince the leaders of these countries to visit Saddam in Iraq to end the Iraqi dictator’s diplomatic isolation. Hitchens does not buy this. Not because he has evidence to the contrary, but because years earlier Zahawie was an Iraqi envoy for nuclear matters

DUH. Your cite.
They went shopping, didn’t they? Or maybe they were just hanging out, making buddies.
After all, Nigeria exports all kinds of foodstuffs and medicinal needs that Iraq had with the embargo and all. Oh, wait … What does Nigeria exist on? Besides scams?

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Meh, Slate was leaning right when it was a corporate entity of Microsoft, but later went lefty.

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Kerry did what? Try to be precise.

CMC fnord!

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I started the bedwetter thread for a for a place to go for the opposite sides of the coind to go and argue the finer points of left vs right argument. This one should stay with the legality of the Plame dismissal.

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Finer points of bedwetting? :slight_smile:

See you in the Pit.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8802193#post8802193

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Under some rare circumstances, we might have the patriotic duty to do so.

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  1. Media Matters for America is not affiliated with George Soros, though I have no doubt there is mutual sympathy.

  2. “Reactionary” is a term properly applied only to right-wingers.

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That link relates to the Pentagon’s criticism of Clinton’s criticism of the conduct of the Iraq War.

Iraq never declared war on us and, before the war, had nothing whatsoever to do with anti-U.S. terrorism and was no haven to al-Qaeda (except for the Kurdish part which Hussein, thanks to the U.S., did not control).