Joe Wilson: What He Didn't Find in Africa
By Jon Krampner
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A crisp, concise (9000 words) account of Plamegate, the sequence of events set in motion when Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV published "What I Didn't Find in Africa," his 2003 New York Times op-ed challenging Bush/Cheney lies about the rationale for the Iraq War.
Jon Krampner
Jon Krampner is a political activist who was horrified by the myriad depredations of what Gore Vidal called "the Cheney/Bush junta." He has written this 9,000 word e-book, thoroughly annotated with 124 footnotes, to serve as a concise account of Plamegate, Bushco's vindictive and illegal outing of Joe Wilson's wife Valerie Plame as payback for his having written "What I Didn't Find in Africa," which exposed Bushco's willful falsehoods about the need for the Iraq War. Mr. Krampner lives in Los Angeles.
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Joe Wilson: What He Didn’t Find in Africa
by Jon Krampner
Copyright ©2015 by Jon Krampner
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: From Bridgeport to Niger
Chapter 2: Operation Desert Storm: I Will Bring My Own Fucking Rope
Chapter 3: How Bush and Cheney Lied Us Into Iraq
Chapter 4: Why Wilson Wrote What I Didn’t Find in Africa
Chapter 5: The Bushies Strike Back
Chapter 6: Pressure Mounts on the Wilsons
Chapter 7: Scooter Goes Down and Rove Dodges a Bullet
Chapter 8: The Consequences of the War Joe Wilson Tried to Prevent
Chapter 9: Leaving DC Behind
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Chapter 1: From Bridgeport to Niger
Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq? Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
(1)
With those two sentences, measured and diplomatic in tone but transgressive in spirit, Joseph Wilson IV opened What I Didn’t Find in Africa,
an op-ed piece for The New York Times, on July 6, 2003. It would ignite a political, legal and media firestorm that revealed the fraudulence of the Bush administration’s rationale for war with Iraq, demonstrated its corrupt and intimate relationship with the Washington press and led to the criminal conviction of one of the highest-ranking government officials in U.S. history.
Hardly what you would expect from the scion of a well-established family of California Republicans.
It was in California that I met Joe Wilson, in the lobby of the exclusive Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Unlike the well-tailored suit he would wear when he and his wife Valerie Plame Wilson took the stage of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium several hours later as part of a distinguished speakers series, he was wearing a black polo shirt, black pants and mostly black running shoes, a look I think of as Ninja Casual.
It’s a look that befits a warrior and the descendant of warriors. As Wilson writes in his memoir The Politics of Truth, his father was a marine pilot during World War II, among the last to take off from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin before it was struck by two bombs dropped from a Japanese dive-bomber, killing more than 700 U.S. servicemen. If another plane ahead of Wilson’s father’s hadn’t stalled and been pushed aside, he could well have been on the desk when the bombs exploded. (2)
And during World War I, Wilson’s paternal grandfather received both the British Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. (3) His mother was an aide-de-camp to a Marine Corps general in World War II. (4)
Wilson’s