Musings from the West

Shame on you George Wills, Victoria Toensing and all Republicans who continue to repeat the lie that Joe Wilson said Vice President Cheney sent him to Niger. In his piece "What I Didn't Find in Africa" published on Sunday, July 6, 2006, by the New York Times, Mr. Wilson wrote, "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. . . . The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office." Mr. Wills, you repeated the lie on national television, on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolis. As a member of the press, it is your job to get and state the facts correctly. Ms Toensing, you repeated the lie while testifying, under oath, to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. If neither one of those situations are important enough to merit complete truth, what is?

Shame on you fiscal conservatives and free market advocates who complain that paying for health care places U.S. companies at a financial disadvantage compared to their foreign counterparts, but never mention that foreign companies do not bear this burden because their countries provide government financed and operated universal health coverage to their inhabitants. Why omit such pertinent information from any genuine attempt to discuss or solve this grave problem?