I know he's a public figure which means he couldn't, but my question is if President Bush were a private citizen and business owner and Joe Wilson went to the media telling the lies he did about him and his "company", could President Bush sue him?
And before anyone says Joe Wilson didn't lie, please read this article that states that a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found that Wilson was lying about his findings in Niger, that Wilson was lying about documents being fake (we didn't even have them until 8 months after his trip, and Wilson never saw them), that Wilson was lying about his wife recommending him for the job (she did), that Wilson was lying about his memo being circulated and that he was lying about the CIA telling the White House it had doubts about the Yellowcake intelligence:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9?language=printer
What do you think?
2007-10-28 09:54:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, he is Plame's husband :)
2007-10-28 10:02:25 · update #1
qncy,
"this article is nothing but revisionists trying to rewrite the events that occured"
So what you're saying is that what a BIPARTISAN SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE finds is just an attempt at rewriting history?
Did you even read the link?
Do you know the definition if bipartisan?
2007-10-28 10:05:51 · update #2
Crabby, Read the article, it addresses that.
Everyone else that doesn't trust the Washington Post, you'd say the same thing about a Fox News link if I gave it to you and those two are polar opposites.
Seems more like an attempt to keep believing lies to me.
2007-10-28 10:07:51 · update #3
For those who don't like the Washington Post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/international/middleeast/18URAN.html?ei=5090&en=c042f998cdeebb91&ex=1247803200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position
2007-10-28 10:15:32 · update #4
Geez people! When are we going to be able to put down our partisan hats and put on our thinking caps?
WILSON IS A LIAR!
I don't care if you are a democrat or a republican, conservative or liberal, worker or couch potato...the evidence all points to the same conclusion. I am a conservative who can admit that our president has his flaws. Why can't some liberals admit that Wilson is a liar? Don't just stick to your guns based on your political leanings, please think critically. We have an obligation to this country, and to our children to act with maturity and intelligence. Don't neglect that obligation!
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself. - Carter G. Woodson, 1933
2007-10-29 08:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Kitten S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alpha Male, you have to stop asking questions like these because you are just allowing yourself to get frustrated.
The more you try to justify yourself (whether right or wrong) the more you will become frustrated.
I don't ask many questions. Not because of frustration but just to see how people will respond.
If I post a question to which I am already convinced of the answer, then all I have done is shown bias. Remember, regardless of what other people think, they do have a right to their thoughts and opinions.
2007-10-28 17:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Because that "bipartisan panel was a put up job by Bush himself.
Wilson may not be perfect. But the bottom line is that Bush lied--knowingly--about the fake "Niger connection" in his State of the Union address. Pointing that out isn't libel.
2007-10-28 17:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
lol washington post?!
might as well post a link from the Enquirer as a credible source lOL! HAHHA!
What Washington Post is claiming didn't happen, did happen. An intelligence probe already verified it, and now washington post is trying to claim it didn't??
I guess next they will say Rummy's replacement was there from the beginning, and that Rumsfeld wasn't calling for a change in course huh?
2007-10-28 17:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Classic hatchling strategy.
Elevated hatchling make claims they know are false. Underling hatchling repeat them over and over and over, hoping no one notices they are false. If they do, ignore them and wait for more elevated hatchling misinformation to parrot.
Hatchling, the Washington Post is owned by the Reverend Moon, one of the most notorious International Corporate Fascists in the world.
If their is any hope for you hatchling, follow the trail back down the feces hole if you dare. You will find the truth there hatchling. It is not pretty. I doubt you can handle it. But it will inform you of the misinformation of which the void that is the one hatchling mind is formed.
Be brave hatchling. While you have been laid by invaders from the planet Brain Surgery in one basket, you are in some distant obscure way still Earthling. Go down that feces hole hatchling and discover Life, Liberty and the nuts to stand up and fight these fascists for our country.
2007-10-28 17:29:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We love those neocon links trying to drum up support for more war. People who keep up with events realize that this article is nothing but revisionists trying to rewrite the events that occured.
Your avatar is more than approapiate.
yes I read your sorry link, and everything that an earlier probe found to have happened, and was accepted as events that occured, the washington post is trying to claim otherwise, without posting anything but drivel, like usual!
The only people attempting to believe lies, are the people like you, that keep trying to spread them.
2007-10-28 17:00:13 · answer #6 · answered by qncyguy21 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well since Bush IS a public figure, asking this question is like asking whether frogs would bump their asses if they had wings.
Btw, suing someone for defamatory speech is called slander, not libel. Libel is written speech.
Anyone who thinks Bush didn't lie to the American public is living in fantasyland.
2007-10-28 17:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't matter. Bush lied. Bush is evil. A case of someone lying to prove that needs to be buried at all costs. Anything that challenges that needs to be silenced at all costs. We must continue to smear the President and if you try to stand in our way, we will do the same to you. You have been warned. A Kerry Re-Education Camp awaits you.
/EDIT: ROFL, see above for proof.
2007-10-28 17:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lol strangely, I think Joe Wilson could claim executive priveledge since his reasons for saying what he said were important to the functioning of the executive branch.
2007-10-28 16:58:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think Joe Wilson's comments should have been directed at CHENEY, not Bush.
2007-10-28 17:34:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋