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And if nobody else had the cojones to do it, I'm glad Rove did if he did do it, and he still says he didn't. Well despite her husband's repeated denia ls, even in the face of a pile of evidence and conclusions from a Senate investigation, it appears all evidence points to Joe Wilson's wife, spy Valerie Plame, as the one who recommended him for the job of going to N iger to discover is Saddam was trying to buy nuke bomb materials. Because Wilson was opposed to the war in Iraq, opp osed to Bush policy, and pointedly and loudly said so. Consequently, it was of some interest how he got chosen for this sensitiv e job which people at the time might have thought would be a fulcrum poi nt for a decision about the war. You wouldn't send a peacenik to see if we should go to war, if we need to go to war, now would you? That's exactly what happened, and as they say in the news biz: Inquiring minds wanted to know, "How the heck did this happen?" She touted husband Joe, her CIA bosses bit, and off Wilson went to comple tely knock down any notion Saddam wanted Niger's nuke bomb making stuff, which is called yellow cake. Problem is, the report of the Select Committee on Intelligence says the i nformation showed no such thing. That, in fact, it was still a bit of a mystery and Saddam could well have been trying to buy the nuke bomb mate rial. Let's just assume that spy Valerie Plame knew her husband's attitudes abo ut the war in Iraq and George W Bush's policies. Sending him off to Nig er could be regarded as an attempt to influence national policies. We do not want secret spy masters pulling the puppet strings in the background. That is something that should be out in the open and the person doing it should own up to it. Rove should get a medal if he did what he says he didn't.
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