Carpe Datum

Letter to Bob

Bob Thinks That Compromising Our National
Security Assets Is OK If They Are Democrats.

To: Bob Novak
Re: Joe Wilson

Dear Bob,

I was pretty mad at you for the last year for risking our national security assets to just "gig" Joe Wilson by revealing the idenity of his wife as a covert operative. But then I read your latest column in which you "feel compelled" to talk further about what you know about Joe Wilson and the whole "Uranium from Africa" debacle, despite having kept silent for a year about it on advice of your lawyers (who are probably rich, slick Democrats). It must've been tough to keep silent for so long when you just want to let everyone know the truth.

According to your column, the "Uranium from Africa" claim in the old State of the Union address has now been shown to be accurate by the latest report from British Intelligence. It's very brave of a conservative like yourself to report things that are counter to what the Bush Administration has claimed. You remember that, right? They said that at the time of the speech, that claim was completely unfounded based on the existing evidence at the time, and those "16 words" should've been left out of the speech regardless of later revelations.

So those of us who questioned the speech and, in fact, thought the whole run-up to the Iraq war was a great big pile of crap (you know, all the WMD claims, the "human rights" argument that fell to pieces when we were found out to be torturing people and so forth, all that stuff)... well, we were vindicated on that back last year. This column of yours was nice to see because it reminded me of that victory, forcing the Bush administration to retract a (then) baseless claim and admit a mistake, and I am glad you are willing to celebrate that with us.

In the interests of further patriotic, truth-revealing behavior, I am wondering if you have decided to go ahead and let everyone know which senior administration offical illegally revealed the covert identity of Valerie Plame (Joe Wilson's wife) to you? We're all willing to put partisanship aside when there is treasonous behavior involved, right?

Love,
Observer

PS. Say, you knew that Iran has not only been asking around about Uranium lately, but they actually got some (from our War-On-Terror Ally Pakistan) and have their own reactor and everything now? Crazy world, huh?

Posted by Observer at July 15, 2004 12:02 PM