I don't mind admitting I just don't get it. I actually need help understanding this, folks...
For the millionth time, it seems, I have read an article about Rove/Libby/WHIG/White House/Wurmser/Hannah/BlahBlahBlah and the fact that they outed Valerie Plame Wilson in order to discredit Joe Wilson. This time the article was Cheney aide passed Plame's name to Libby, Hadley, those close to leak investigation say.
What I can't understand is why in the world they thought that her being connected to her husband's trip to Niger would in any way whatsoever bring discredit upon him.
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In the latest article, it says,
He [Wurmser] asserted [to Libby and Cheney] that it was a boondoggle, the sources said.
Later on it says that
Within a week, Wurmser, on orders from "executives in the office of the vice president," was told to leak her name to a specific group of reporters in an effort to muzzle her husband, Wilson...
Followed shortly by
"Libby wanted to discredit him right from the start," one source close to the investigation told RAW STORY. "He used David Wurmser to help him do that."
Where is the item that is supposed to discredit Wilson in any of what they leaked?
I can see that maybe they were trying to intimidate him, as in "We know who your wife is and we will make life miserable for her," or "We will ruin her career," or "Ve haff vays of making people disappear, you know, Comrade Vilson.'"
...I am no dummy, but it seems they attacked with a shrubbery/herring on a point that no one in their right mind could understand as a slam on Joe Wilson. Can anyone spell this out for me? It has never made sense from day one. To my mind, they are bringing down the walls of the White House around themselves for absolutely NOTHING.
Are Repubs like that ALL the time? I mean, Nixon was leading in the polls by what, 10,000 percentage points, and he had is minions burgle the DNC offices in the Watergate? WHY? Did he think it was going to help him win by 10,001 percentage points?
Unnecessary, unnecessary, unnecessary.
And here, they attack someone on a point that is so obscure that my really decent political IQ just does not absorb, through my porous though thick cranium.
If Valerie Plame suggested (which she did) or participated in her husband's choice (which she did not) to run that errand for the CIA on behalf of Dick Cheney, what difference does that make? How does either make Joe Wilson's opinion undependable or disreputable?
Unnecessary, unnecessary, unnecessary.
If they had just shut the f__ up, Joe Wilson's article - like ALL reasoned logical statements against Bu$hCo (and there have been gazillions) - would have simply faded into the past. They slashed at a windmill that they didn't have to, and look at the ridiculous destruction it has rained down upon their stupid f__ing heads.
Please - I am dying to know. Anybody?