[Peace-discuss] Smear her rather than hear her.

[Chuck Minne]

Joe Wilson on the Sheehan Controversy

Statement by Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson
 
 
  The Bush White House and its right wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and 
the military families' vigil in Central Texas in the same way that they always 
respond to bad news -by unleashing personal attacks and smears against her. 

  This White House never wants an open public discussion, and it certainly never 
wants to be told that it is wrong. It always tries to change the message by attacking 
the messenger. 

  They did it with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill when he wrote a book that 
suggested that the White House used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq. 

  They did it when Richard Clarke revealed that the White House ignored warnings 
about Bin Laden. 

  They did it in a most despicable way, as everybody now knows, when they revealed 
my wife's identity as a CIA employee because they were unhappy when I spoke the truth 
and told the American people that President Bush's claim was false concerning 
Niger's giving uranium to Iraq, part of the trumped up rationale for our invasion. 

  So no one should be surprised that when these mothers and families who have lost 
loved ones in Iraq step up to question the President, the White House responds not 
with the respect due them, but with hateful attacks and smears. But enough is enough. 
Ours is a government of the people, by the people and for the people; and the people 
in the name of Cindy Sheehan are right in demanding accountability for the tragedy 
foisted upon our great nation by this administration. To smear her rather than hear 
her is un-American and undemocratic.


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