If you haven’t seen Gateway Pundit’s review (and heard the audio link) of Joe Wilson’s 2003 speech (given one month before Novak’s column), check it out here.

In this speech, Ambassador Joseph Wilson:

* describes himself as the investigator sent to Niger by the government
* details the African trip as only he is capable of
* says the government sent him there and not the CIA (a lie)
* says there was nothing to the uranium story (a lie)
* describes the US as “occupiers” of Iraq (a shocking statement at the time)
* describes a conspiracy to help Israel dominate the Palestinians
* calls the Administration warmongers and a–holes
* says Bush is in office for sex

Actual excerpts:

…As I used to say when I was doing my interviews before the war, the issue of weapons of mass destruction is primortive (primordial?), it is important…(at 3:35)

…Going from 1441 to an invasion, conquest and occupation war was not the right thing to do…

… I remain on the view that we will find biological and chemical weapons and we may well find something that that indicates that Saddam’s regime maintained an interest in nuclear weapons…(at 7:50)

…I remember this guys saying these warmongers,… As the sun was coming up I had my flag out there because I am not going to let these a–holes claim that they are more patriotic than I am!…(at 13:20)

…even our military officers were absolutely dismayed at the slaughter we were inflicting on those poorly trained on the way to Baghdad…(at 19:50)

…If you take out some of these countries that are, some of these governments that are antagonistic to Israel, then you provide the Israeli Government with greater wherewithal to impose its terms and conditions on the Palestinian people…(at 20:16)

…By next year,…The pressure here in the United States will begin to build, because by that time Ariel Sharon will have made life so miserable for the Palestinians that they will cross over to Jordan or you will just see a lot of bloodshed. You will see Hamas doing things every day and you will see Israeli gunships in there…(at 27:50)

…As they say in France, people get into politics for money, power and sex. And, most of the rest of the world is the same thing. And maybe here in the states its the same thing, the sex part for Mr. Bush.(at 37:35)

…Wasn’t life simpler when all our president lied about was his sex life? (at 37:45)