Ambassador Wilson labels the Bush administration with the 'F' word

[xray s]

Fascist.

When a man with a solid career of service to his country steps up and describes in plain language the nature of the Bush administration as fascist, you just have to step back and wonder if we indeed have lost our country forever.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/94615/61143

Are you comfortable letting it be known that you've spoken with me (dailykos)?

I have no problem with your saying you have spoken with me. I have no reason not to ensure that the truth is told and I am tired of the way in which the Republicans have smeared my family and myself for no reason other than to perpetuate their lies to the American people. I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.

[Hugin]

1. Good word too. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. 'Word, Mr. Ambassador.

Joe Wilson seems not to see the larger picture. But ain't he grand on the part he does see?

[Mojambo]

3. Great, great stuff

Thanks for posting it.

[ultraist]

4. "If we allow ourselves to be intimidated and silenced by the liars..."

excerpts from OP article:

"That said, if we allow ourselves to be intimidated and silenced by the liars, our democracy will not survive. We have to continue to confront them."

My complaint is not so much about the smear campaign as it is about the laziness of so-called objective journalists who failed to even do basic research. If Susan Schmidt, the Post reporter, had bothered to call the CIA or check the written record, she would have learned that mere days after the Novak article appeared, the CIA (under the guise of an unnamed senior intelligence official) told Newsday that Valerie was not responsible for the decision to send me to Niger. The CIA repeated the same thing to every reporter who bothered to ask over the subsequent year.

If reporters had bothered to read the Senate report, they would have learned that not only the White House but also the Senate Select committee itself was told by CIA management nearly four months before the State of the Union address that American intelligence did not believe the British claim. Unless the press is prepared to work at it we will continue to be bamboozled by administrations, and people like me who are prepared to speak out will become rare species indeed."

[Swamp Rat]

5. HA! I and other DUers were criticized in another thread for speaking up

and using the 'F' word.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3078761&mesg_id=3078761

[cosmicdot]

6. 8 years ago using the "F" word ...

I was told similar (i.e., I was in the proverbial 'left' field) when using the 'f' word to help describe and explain my wrongful termination, etc., case against my corporate employer and the good ol'boys (who cares about the Founding Principles?) who orchestrated and executed it ... I told them I knew how Ann Frank felt ... and, I was serious ...

... seems use of the term has gained a larger national audience since then ...

it was applicable then ... it's applicable now

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