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Former Spy's Memoir Contains a Paradox

Submitted by chris, Oct 26, 2007 21:16

The "Memoir" doesn't contain a pardox, your projected filters contain a paradox. Out of the entire book, what you chose to focus on, and interpret, was the personal conflict in their marriage, applauding your own wit in seeing Wilson's business and marriage fail. You strip the context out entirely as if, you could go through any of what that couple went through and somehow characterize it against an implied norm.

But that's not where you're so off. The account of the suggestion of Wilson and the memo have been covered and you refuse to catch up. Clearly the memo was directed by someone else even though Valerie Wilson was the actual author. You quote from the second memo paragraph and ignore the first that tells you she is being directed to send this communication by a higher up. If you don't tell people that, they too will only read the second paragraph. This is called "parsing".

I would recommend readers to ignore such opinion pieces like this and go back and examine the actual evidence. Wilson was more than qualified, had served in Africa for over 20 years. He was the charge d'affair in Iraq, and even faced down Saddam Hussain in the first Gulf War. But, again, if you just never mention that, maybe it will never have happened.

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The "Memoir" doesn't contain a pardox, your projected filters contain a paradox. Out of the entire book, what you chose...	chris	Oct 26, 2007 21:16
I never believed a word that Joe Wilson said. I also never believed that Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame were... [MORE]	Allen Gent	Oct 26, 2007 03:48
Her(Plame) job remained safe until she resigned?Wilson should say let bygones be bygones after they turn her out?Our inside sources... [MORE]	bill day	Oct 25, 2007 22:30
Of course, what the President actually said in the SOTU Speech was that the information came from British intelligence -... [MORE]	Mike	Oct 25, 2007 17:51
Sorry, but I fail to see clear evidence of a paradox. [MORE]	Tommy	Oct 25, 2007 17:33
I can see Wilson being an abuser. I think he thought all of this stuff up by himself, for glorification,... [MORE]	Rita	Oct 25, 2007 15:48
In fact, this statement made in the State of the Union address was based on intelligence that Britain continues to... [MORE]	cheeflo	Oct 25, 2007 14:07
I am glad you read the book, now I do not have to read it! She wrote, from what I can... [MORE]	carole	Oct 25, 2007 13:53
Ms Plame owes an apology to Lewis Libby. She and her husband should pay his court costs, and his fines... [MORE]	Kim Freisthler	Oct 25, 2007 10:45
Bush said Irag was seeking yellow cake from Africa which is true, Joe Wilson reported so to the CIA but... [MORE]	TJ	Oct 25, 2007 10:41
From the very start, when this 'outing' news unfolded, based from the circumstances stated on the news, I already had... [MORE]	antonia vivar	Oct 25, 2007 07:15
As British Intelligence still states that Saddam Hussien had been seeking uranium ore and two investigations into Mr. Wilson's trip... [MORE]	longwalker	Oct 25, 2007 05:06