Joe Wilson was a partisan in the Kerry camp, eh? Not so in PBS interview!

[Roland99]

2.28.03
Transcript: Bill Moyers Talks with Joseph C. Wilson, IV
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_wilson.html

MOYERS: So President Bush is not being naive to think that the UN may backfire on him. He's not being naive when he thinks that Saddam Hussein is lying to us, deceiving us, right?

WILSON: One should never believe Saddam Hussein. We certainly have enough experience with his deception and his lies not to be too trusting with him. With respect to the United Nations, it seems to me that the United Nations has far more often acted in a way that is-- that is consistent with our interests. And it has a obstacle to our interests. And it is our interests who have a broad international support for an objective.

<...>

WILSON: But I think disarmament is only one of the objectives. And the President has touched repeatedly and more openly on the other objectives in recent speeches including this idea of liberating Iraq and liberating its people from a brutal dictator. And I agree that Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator.

And I agree along with everybody else that the Iraqi people could — would well be far better off without Saddam Hussein. The problem really is a war which has us invading, conquering and then subsequently occupying Iraq may not achieve that liberation that we're talking about.

Sounds like a pretty level-headed and clean-thinking person to me.

[damntexdem]

1. A "level-headed and clean-thinking person"?

Oh, then maybe he wasn't a Republican, after all.

[Glorfindel]

2. What? You can't be level-headed, clean-thinking

and support Kerry? I don't get it. :shrug:

[Roland99]

3. Meaning he wasn't anti-* and pro-Kerry from the get-go

That interview shows he was thinking things through but wasn't necessarily opposed to an invasion.

[Glorfindel]

6. Thanks! I see your point.

n/t

[Roland99]

7. Just shows how desperately lame those GOP Talking Points are.

[judy]

4. Joseph Wilson was also

a Reagan appointee...

[Roland99]

5. Wasn't Richard Clarke from the Reagan admin, too?

They love to turn on their own when it's politically expedient.

[Totally Committed]

8. I had heard that Wilson supported Bush...

before his Niger mission. This seems to prove it, imo.

And, since Bush's opponent turned out to be Kerry... of course he ended up in the Kerry camp after the Bushies outed his wife, and tried to destroy him. Maybe that's why they thought his wife was "fair game"... they wanted to scare him back into the fold, and it didn't work?

I don't doubt anything anymore about anyone who's spent more than a year or two in Washington. The absolute power of the place corrupts absolutely.

TC