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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Apr 30 21:06:06 2011, in response to Re: Trump's Latest Scandal: Draft-dodging, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Apr 30 20:55:13 2011. I guess the first thing I said in my previous post fell victim to your poor reading comprehension; "Yes he lied and was convicted for it." Now, on the other hand, Armitage opposed Bush and the war in Iraq.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak "in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip," according to a story this week by the Post's R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr. Armitage. It follows that one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House -- that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame's identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson -- is untrue. The partisan clamor that followed the raising of that allegation by Mr. Wilson in the summer of 2003 led to the appointment of a special prosecutor, a costly and prolonged investigation, and the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury. All of that might have been avoided had Mr. Armitage's identity been known three years ago. Now you should be asking why Armitage was not prosecuted by Fitzgerald. |
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