Joe Wilson
You have several intelligence services so that you take several different looks at bits of information.
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
Well, the thing that is important to understand in all of this is that it's not a crime that was committed against my wife or me - it was a crime against the country.
Well, I take great pride in being an American, and I don't believe either party has a monopoly on wisdom.
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.
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
The government serves the people - not vice-versa.
The fact is, I was not sent out to question what British intelligence might have, I was sent out to question the allegation that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase several hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger.
The act of leaking my wife's name to the press was a political act.
That said, it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for a Republican in the future.
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.
Somebody close to the President of the United States decided that in order to defend Bush's political agenda, that individual or individuals would violate the national security of the country and expose my wife's name and her profession.
So far from being disillusioned, my faith in my country has been enhanced by this.
People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.
One must always keep one's government under control.
One is that we have 133,000 more potential targets out there, a lot closer to where harm can happen, that we've created another front for terrorism that we're now in the midst of.
Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans.
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
My knowledge of Africa and of Niger is almost unparalleled in US policy circles.
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.