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At 10:27 08/02/10 +0200, Patrick Bond wrote: > >Joseph C Wilson ><http://www.spintelligent-events.com/power-indaba-2010/en/Featuredspeakers. php>, >CEO, JC Wilson Investment Ventures, United States and former United >States Ambassador > >He's coming to Durban later this month, Well I don't have any deep information to help you, but I'll take this as an opportunity to offer my rant about the guy. I was sort of disgusted because a lot of the soft-left antiwar movement sort of described him as a "hero" of some sort for having contradicted Bush's lie about "Iraq obtaining uranium from Africa." Yes, he did in fact go to Niger and report back to the effect that Bush's claims were false. So yes, he told the truth, which is better than lying. But that only came to people's attention much later, in the summer of 2003, when he finally went public with it, whereas he said NOTHING PUBLICALLY before the beginning of the war, when it could well have made a difference! So it's sort of a case of doing the "right thing" at the wrong time! The information he had was explosive, and he deliberately chose to avoid revealing it while the bombs were raining down on Baghdad, clearly putting his allegiance to the system ahead of any humanity. I consider that completely criminal. Now when he went to Niger in 2002 he did it at the request of the CIA. I'll say that again. He was working for the CIA. Unless I don't understand the English language, that means he is or was A CIA AGENT. I'm saying that here out loud, aware that all of you in the US could actually go to jail for making a statement of that sort! So once again: Joseph Wilson was or IS A CIA AGENT, and I can hardly think of a worse thing to say about someone! And yes, he was (as we know now) married to a CIA agent, and that she was (until her career was "ruined" by being exposed by the white house in the vindictive move against her husband) a lifer in the CIA. And I have never heard this mentioned, but that means that when he was the deputy US ambassador to Iraq in 1998 - 1991 prior to the first US war (which he helped engineer on the diplomatic front), that he brought his wife, A CIA AGENT also into Iraq under the cover of diplomatic immunity! When diplomats are accused of spying, the US always denies that such a thing is possible, that these are separated functions. Ha! That means that the CIA had a direct plant right in Baghdad who couldn't be touched and could smuggle whatever she wanted out of Iraq in the ambassador's pouch. Not just Iraq, but he had several other diplomatic assignments, presumably also bringing along and giving cover to his wife, the career CIA agent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_C._Wilson#Diplomatic_career I'm sorry I don't have any inside info about his "JC Wilson International Ventures Corp." but I don't think I'll be doing business with them! I imagine he's making lots of money using his "expertise" gained through his wife's CIA activities in every African country where he had a diplomatic post. I hope you can dig up some more dirt on him before he appears at this conference. But the bottom line is that he was or is a CIA agent, and withheld from the public crucial information that would have countered the Bush war drive against Iraq. - Jeff as part of the Africa Utilities >'Power Indaba' Conference >(http://www.spintelligent-events.com/power-indaba-2010/en/index.php) >that has raised some concerns. Does anyone have anything interesting to >tell us about Wilson so we understand context? > >Cheers, >Patrick > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
