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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why is Valerie so Plame silly?
by Kevin McCullough
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The news came swiftly Thursday afternoon. Now that Robert Novak had finally revealed one last secret in the ever-fraudulent story about Valerie Plame's identity being leaked - we could put it all behind us and promise never to mention it again right?

No. For some strange reason, specifically sycophantic vanity, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson have filed a lawsuit against Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Scooter Libby.

Their stated reason?

Specifically to accuse, "Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of participating in a 'whispering campaign' to reveal Plame's CIA identity and punish Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq."

Never mind the fact that like an annoying little gnat at the family picnic Wilson's criticisms were swept away with complete mockery because he knew not what he was talking about. You do remember don't you? President Bush goes on national television for his state of the union and refers to uranium that Saddam was seeking in "Africa"?

Wilson had visited Niger and assumed that the President must have been referring only to him and he lines up with Andrea Mitchell the following Sunday on Meet the Press to talk about how many mint juleps he had consumed instead of looking for the uranium. Of course this translates into Wilson's mind as absolute proof that there is no uranium and he returns home to say so.

By the way - the British Intelligence stands by their information - to this day - that demonstrates that Iraq was actively seeking uranium.

See the whole idea of the administration getting "even" with Wilson means that Wilson had to have actually been in some way a threat to the administration. And as much as he'd like to believe so - he never was.

So then comes the preposterous account of Plame - Wilson's wife who respected him so much she wouldn't take his name - and her being "outed" as a CIA spy - some six years after she was in such a position. No law was broken, and the independent council has agreed.

But even that was a joke because here this vanity couple was out posing for magazine shots, and getting their names everywhere on the Democratic radar screen.

Look the facts are simple.

Wilson was an ideologue who wanted the assignment to go drink mint juleps in Niger so that he could purposefully stab the administration through the heart. Continued...

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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Plame/Wilson
I grant the writer's observation that these are, at least publicly, shallow, self-aggrandizing people who would undermine our collective security just for an extra head shot in their "Architectural Digest" cover piece. That said, the article was relatively thin stuff. There is more concrete information on which to base his (generally correct) conclusions, but without the presentation of hard info, what we are left with is invective and innuendo, and we will never convince the liberals in our lives of the rightness of our positions by acting like little Ann Coulters. Many wars have been lost by those who won more battles. This piece is written for the choir; we need more evangelization through reason, not more monodimensional "amens!".

Plame/Wilson
I grant the writer's observation that these are, at least publicly, shallow, self-aggrandizing people who would undermine our collective security just for an extra head shot in their "Architectural Digest" cover piece. That said, the article was relatively thin stuff. There is more concrete information on which to base his (generally correct) conclusions, but without the presentation of hard info, what we are left with is invective and innuendo, and we will never convince the liberals in our lives of the rightness of our positions by acting like little Ann Coulters. Many wars have been lost by those who won more battles. This piece is written for the choir; we need more evangelization through reason, not more monodimensional "amens!".
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