Once all the gung-ho members of George W’s gun slinging gang of cronies decided to go to War in Iran on the most misguided of excuses they need a pretext to justify their actions. Scrabbling around to uncover any minute bit of evidence they seized on reports that Niger, an African nation, had sold uranium to Iraq. The CIA sent out Joe Wilson, a former US Ambassador to investigate, and he reported back that there was absolutely no truth in the rumors. But when did facts and the truth ever get into the way of government policy, so we went to War regardless with Bush quoting the (non-existent) uranium sales as a justifiable reason.
Joe Wilson sat watching on the sidelines for some time and then when he could bear it no longer wrote an Op-Ed article for the NY Times reporting what he actually had found in Niger i.e. nothing, and the Bush Administration went ballistic. They leaked to the Press that Wilson was married to Valerie Plame and outed her as a top covert CIA operative with dire consequences for all her contacts in the field and irreparable damage to Plame’s livelihood which ended up almost wrecking her marriage too.
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Labels: dramatized reallife, political thriller
