uranium

Newsweek
has an interesting article that brings up the fact Karl Rove took out a $100,000
line of credit right after his last appearance before the grand jury. It also
talks about the $5 million trust set up for the Libby defense. On the board of
this trust is some major Republican fund raisers but none is more interesting
than Melvin Sembler.

If you are not familiar with Sembler, he was our ambassador to Italy. What
makes it more interesting is the fact he was our Italian ambassador at the time
of the forged uranium documents that alleged Saddam was trying to obtain yellow
cake from Niger. In other words, the documents that caused this entire mess.

The article also talks about Rove's involvement in at least one White House
meeting that resulted in Patton Boggs gaining a large client. Robert Luskin,
Rove's attorney in the leak case, is a partner of Patton Boggs. The White House
wouldn't comment on any possible ethics violations of Rove's attorney getting
these contracts but it does seem a little fishy.

This has to be one of the most ridiculous arguments
surrounding the entire Valerie Plame affair. Since Karl Rove surfaced as one of
the proven sources that leaked the CIA agent’s identity, I have heard this
argument brought up countless times by the right. The question really should be;
what benefit would Joe Wilson have by lying?

Joe Wilson served our country for 26 years and when he
found out our administration had bad intelligence regarding the one of the key
facts leading up to the war in Iraq, it was time to discredit him. Actually his
intelligence merited the truth; Iraq was not purchasing uranium from Niger. This
has been proven in other investigations.

So why would Joe Wilson lie? The argument could have been
made that he was doing it to try and help John Kerry win the Presidential
election. This didn’t work out though. Maybe he is trying for some big movie
deal or something along them lines – going after it for a monetary reward. I
doubt that.

The truth is Joe Wilson is telling the truth. He is not the
one on defense here. It is Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and the White House. It
reminds you of the rapist saying “she was asking for it”. That is now Roves
defense – Wilson was asking for it. We all know he wasn’t asking for anything.
He just wanted the truth to be heard about what he really found in Iraq.