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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
Dec. 22, 2006 A Morality Play in One Brief Act Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and Husband of Valerie Plame: Hi, Folks. I'm Joe Wilson. I am here at this book signing to talk about my book, "The Politics of Truth." If it's one thing I know something about, it's the truth. I always demand the truth from my associates. I despise people who don't tell the truth. That's one reason I don't like Karl Rove. I am so disappointed that he didn't get frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. He lied about his non-involvement in the leak about my wife's secret CIA identity. Customer in line: But Karl Rove testified under oath that he didn't leak the information and hasn't been charged with perjury, and later Richard Armitage admitted that he was the leaker. Wilson: Those are mere technicalities. My job as a husband is to protect my wife, and my job as an investigator of yellow cake was to make Bush and Cheney look bad. And that's the truth! I asked several uranium miners and not one said he had seen Saddam Hussein in town purchasing yellow cake. Ergo, Bush was lying. Another customer in line: Impeccable reasoning there, to be sure. But if protecting your wife's CIA identity was important, why did you introduce her around town as "your CIA wife" Wilson: Another technicality. I wasn't revealing anything that the media types around Washington didn't already know. First customer: But if the media already knew your wife worked for the CIA, how could Rove have leaked it? Wilson: My job as a former ambassador is to know all about technicalities, and that's another one. In diplomatic circles, if one can pretend something isn't known, then one can pretend it has been leaked when the New York Times or Robert Novak, whoever comes first, discovers it. Customer Three: Gee, I didn't know that! The political game in Washington reminds me of The Red Queen's court in Alice in Wonderland. Wilson: Oh, yes, that's the truth! I said so in my book, which is called "The Politics of Truth." Any book with such a title has to be packed full of truthful things. Many, many truthful things. Did you know that the Soviet Union's official newspaper was called Pravda, which means "truth" in Russian? Customer One: Yes, I knew that, but wasn't Pravda full of lies every day? Wilson: That's another technicality. Customer Two: If you are a truth expert, why are you trying so hard to escape testifying under oath about your wife's identity, the trip to Niger, and other aspects of PlameGate? Wouldn't you want to testify under oath and spotlight the lies of Rove and Cheney and Bush once and for all? Wilson: Well, you see, as a truth expert, I know that I can say all sorts of things in a book, truths of all kinds, and that the truth is exactly what I say it is, no more and no less. But if I have to testify under oath, then the standards for truths versus lies becomes somewhat different. Alice in Wonderland standards no longer apply, you see. Thus the truth may not be the truth any more. As Al Pacino said in "Sea of Love," when Ellen Barkin caught him lying, "The circumstances are no longer the circumstances." Customer One: Very clever, Mr. Ambassador Wilson! The truth is finally revealed! Here, keep your book. Wilson: But don't you want to know the truth? Customers One, Two, and Three: (All turn and leave, chorusing over their shoulders) Yes indeed, we want the truth, and that's why we're not buying your book! Wilson: (Under his breath, to himself) I have to call Sandy Berger to discover how he got off so lightly for stealing documents from the National Archives. I may have to steal all the copies of my book and burn them before I get called to court. (Pauses to stuff some books from the table down his pants.) Gee, it's much more difficult stuffing books down my pants rather than just a few documents...Why did I ever let Valerie talk me into that trip to Niger?...Gee, maybe I know too much...will I become a target? This is beginning to feel like Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Brad and Angelina... ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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