Americans must take government back from ideologues (Joe Wilson)

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Americans must take government back from ideologues, ex-diplomat says,

Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame Wilson, the CIA operative whose leaked identity has sparked a high-stakes federal investigation, called on students on Oct. 24 to take their republic back from the "neoconservative ideologues" controlling the White House.

"Sometimes in life you have to stand up to the bullies," the career diplomat said during an event at Kresge Auditorium sponsored by the speakers bureau of the Associated Students of Stanford University. "This issue is not about us, it's about what we're going to tolerate in the conduct of our elected officials and the conduct of public discourse."

On July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's covert identity was revealed by newspaper columnist Robert Novak. Some political observers allege she was targeted in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq, which he made public in an op-ed in the New York Times on July 6, 2003. "Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war," he wrote, "I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

In December 2003, Special Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald began investigating whether the exposure of Valerie Wilson's identity was a violation of federal law. Fitzgerald is expected to bring charges in the case by Oct. 28, when the term of his grand jury expires. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser, both face the possibility of indictment. "Tomorrow's New York Times will say that Dick Cheney told Scooter Libby the name of my wife," Wilson announced unexpectedly, evoking gasps and applause from the audience. The statement contradicts Libby's grand jury testimony that he first learned of Valerie Wilson's identity from journalists.

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http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/october26/wilson-102605.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. Wow, check this part out.

Wilson said the invasion was instead part of a sweeping plan devised by neoconservative zealots to change America from a republic into an empire. Such a strategy, he said, was embodied in a document called the "Project for the New American Century," which contains a series of ideological assertions that have come to dominate the Bush administration.

[texpatriot2004]

2. This part is good too.

"It's now clear that senior administration officials were involved—Rove, Libby, perhaps Cheney—and it's clear there was a conspiracy to attack us and perhaps deprive us of our civil rights and constitutional rights," he said. "It's equally clear that everything is becoming unraveled for this administration."

[texpatriot2004]

4. Damn right, stop putting our soldiers in harm's way.

The United States should immediately "stop putting American soldiers in harm's way," Wilson said, and their role should be limited to training Iraqi troops and providing logistical support and intelligence. "This idea of American troops killing Arabs is making us more enemies and absolutely no friends," he said. "We are killing Sunnis on behalf of Shiites. We are involving our troops in somebody else's civil war—on one side."

[shraby]

3. There aren't enough people like him around.

Unfortunately. If we're careful, maybe we can find the ones who are so we can put them in office and replace the numnuts we have now.

[texpatriot2004]

5. You know that's so true. This whole hellish nightmare has shown

that you have to stand up, you have to examine your conscience and take a stand for your convictions. There haven't been enough people with integrity running the show. I think it's because of the selfishness and apathy of the public that this "culture of corruption" has festered...maybe that's harsh but it seems to fit.

I have had to ask myself lately, what would I do for my country? What is the right thing to do? What would I do to "protect and defend" the US Constitution - something (as a Gen Xer) I never imagined I would have to do.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Every generation or so we have to refight the Revolution

so it is YOUR turn now

;-)

[Erika]

6. The rest of the world knows W is an empirical globalist

With no thought to U.S. Citizens. You see and of the Bush clan kids fighting his wars? No.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Gee you thunk?

By the way Ambassador do not, I repeat, DO NOT, make any references to the Rubicon, most people will miss it. Tomorrow we will know if we have crossed that damn river and your warnings are just going to fall on empty ears.

Which reminds me, you are about to join mt friend Senator Byrd... in the collection of people to inspire fictional patriots... hope you don't mind

[texpatriot2004]

9. Kick those bullies to the curb nm

[BikeWriter]

10. Recommended!

[hang a left]

11. handsome....ain't he?

[Tatiana]

12. Very.

Both Wilsons are stunningly beautiful people - inside and out.