http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/national/05WILS.html?pagewanted=1By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
Published: October 5, 2003
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — The dim, grainy photograph is not the best he has ever taken with a president, Joseph C. Wilson IV said, glancing at a picture of himself with President George H. W. Bush, taken in January 1991, two days before the start of the Persian Gulf war. But it is the most memorable.
The two men are caught midstride, heads bowed, walking through the White House Rose Garden, discussing the imminent military action, said Mr. Wilson, who was a senior diplomat in Baghdad at the time. "He was asking all the questions you would want a president to ask as we were contemplating war," he said. "All the human questions."
Now at the center of a political maelstrom over the current Bush administration's war in Iraq — one that has set off a Justice Department investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing by White House officials — Mr. Wilson harks back to those days with a measure of dismay.
"It gives me no pleasure whatsoever," he said of the current controversy, in an interview at his office on Friday. "It gives me great pain, in fact, because of that particular relationship, which I value, with the president's father."DO read the whole article! This piece is actually a fairly decent rebuttal to the whole repug attack of "PARTISAN!" being deployed against Wilson.
And at the end of the article is a single statement from Wilson's lawyer saying that they are "considering" a civil suit -- which could be a BIG DEAL. If you haven't yet read John Dean's salon article from yesterday regarding his recommendation that the Wilsons pursue a civil suit, get to it!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/03/dean/index_np.html -- Remember, you don't have to subscribe to read the whole thing, just give up a minute of your time to run through whatever commercial they've got posted for a free day pass -- WELL worth it!
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