Apparently, reading is not Okie's strong point since I posted this before when he dismissed Joe Wilson's career.
Wilson had the following diplomatic credentials:
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Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, He was one of the principal architecs of President Clinton's historic trip to Africa in March 1998.
Ambassador Wilson was the Political Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces, Europe, 1995-1997. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe from 1992 to 1995. From 1998 to 1991, Ambassador Wilson served in Baghdad, Iraq as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy. During ''Desert Shield'' he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the negotiations that resulted in the release of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before the launching of ''Desert Storm.''
Ambassador Wilson was a member of the U.S. Diplomatic Service from 1976 until 1998. His early assignments included Niamey, Niger, 1976-1978; Lome, Togo, 1978-79; the State Department Brueau of African Affairs, 1979-1981; and Pretoria, South Africa, 1981-1982.
In 1982, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in Bujumbura, Burundi. In 1985-1986, he served in the offices of Senator Albert Gore and the House Majority Whip, Representative Thomas Foley, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88, prior to his assignment to Baghdad.
http://www.cpsag.com/our_team/wilson.html
As well he had past experience investigating sales of Nigerois uranium in 1999, and he specialized in Africa for the majority of his diplomatic career, having served in Niger, Togo, Burundi, and South Africa, and as ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.
Fluent in French, the diplomatic language of ex-French colonial nations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Now, I don't mind high school dropouts showing their a$$es in public; America sure needs them, if for no more than having examples for the rest of us normal people to show our kids the devastating affect of an unexamined life.
Okie, George H W Bush called Joe Wilson a hero. When the US Ambassador left Baghdad in 1991 just before Desert Storm started Joe Wilson was the man George H W Bush left there to mind the store. When Saddam Hussein threatened to kill any American in Iraq if the US invaded, Joe Wilson set up avenues to spirit them out of the country and danger, then meet Saddam with hangman's noose around his neck and challenged that if he did started killing Americans, Saddam had better start with him.
Saddam backed down.
Because of your blatant political fanaticism, you milign a man who has greater honesty, courage, and brains in his toe nail than you do. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for your remarks.
Your position on this thread sinks below being merely bandying and give-and-take of contending political differences; it falls to a level of complete ignorance and disbelief in objective reality.
