Reply #102: They expected him to go along with them. Exactly.

[Jack Rabbit]

Perhaps they forgot to give him the memo. Perhaps they did and just didn't know with whom they were dealing.

In September 1990, Wilson, then acting ambassador to Iraq, gave refuge to about a hundred American citizens in the US embassy in Baghdad in defiance of Saddam's orders. Saddam threatened to execute anybody harboring foreigners. Wilson called a press conference and showed up wearing a noose in lieu of a necktie. He said his message to Saddam was: "If you want to execute me, I'll bring my own (expletive deleted) rope."

Did the Bushies really expect anything but straight shooting from a man like that? They may have gotten other people to tell them anything they wanted hear, regardless of the facts, but hat possessed them to think Wilson would do that?