The Wilson flap by all rights should be dead, but like a movie zombie, it just keeps coming back. As always, Instapundit has all the links you could want on the subject. Especially notable is Gregory Djerejian’s take-down of Joshua Micah Marshall’s attempts to deny the story. When someone has to resort to lame attempts the shoot the messenger (as if The Washington Post is suddenly a conservative water-bearer… please!) and bizarre twists of logic to justify the unjustifiable, one knows that Marshall is trying to spin without much success. It’s cognitive dissonance in action, and it isn’t pretty.
The whole argument consists of one set of forged documents suddenly meaning that an entirely separate three-year investigation, a bipartisan Senate report, and the assessment of the British government are all suddenly wrong. The forged documents are largely irrelevant to the case, the only thing that matters is "did the Iraqis seeks uranium from Africa as Bush claimed in the State of the Union?". The answer to this is undeniably yes, and even Ambassador Wilson’s own book says as much.
Wilson’s credibility is completely shot. It is becoming painfully obvious that his report was fraudulent and was designed to pimp his book and get him in the pages of Vanity Fair. Now, it appears as though many on the left want to follow him in taking their credibility down the toilet as well…
The liberals don’t like being confronted with the facts…they only get angry.
Hey, the libs would rather believe Michael Moore than the British govt (not exactly a bastion of conservatism), British intelligence, the Senate report, the 9-11 Commission, and even Wilson’s own book.
The liberals long ago sacrificed credibility: they are so transparently in the hate Bush mode, they don’t even come close to appearing objective.
Liberals just want to spin every facet of reality to get Bush.
The only reason the libs/Dems are so upset by Bush is not because Bush is incompetent, but precisely because Bush is so effective. They worry that Bush is so effective that he must be stopped or else they are headed for political oblivion.
If Bush were really the person the left portrayed him to be, they wouldn’t be so determined against him.
There’s nothing notable about Gregory’s article. It simply repeats the already debunked argument that “a bunch of intel services said it, so it must be true!”
Yes, because we all know a partisan hack like Joe Wilson is more credible than a bipartisan Senate panel…
…talk about a pathetic attempt to hold on to an argument that has long since been discredited.