Joe Wilson's "first political appointees"

This is just too good. I posted earlier that Joe Wilson said this from a September 2003 interview with Paula Zahn:

WILSON: Let me make a couple of points about that.

First of all, Novak also said that I was a Clinton appointee. In actual fact, my first political appointee was as ambassador. And I was appointed by George H.W. Bush, the first President Bush. So I really am apolitical in all of this.

As someone pointed out, some people don't consider the many other numerous positions held by Joe Wilson as "political appointees", so he is correct. Well, why would you consider, then, these Ambassador appointments "political appointments" to Gabon, Principe, and Sao Tome? Take a look at the map.

Principe and Sao Tome


Gabon


These are obviously not in Niger. These don't even border Niger. Two of them are islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

I am wondering what kind of "political appointee" this really was? It doesn't seem very political at all.

Think about this. What does H.W. Bush assigning him to these places have to do with Novak calling him a Clinton appointee in relation to uranium and Niger?

We now know he would not have been in Niger unless the CIA hadn't sent them "on their own initiative", at the request of his wife. Joe Wilson was appointed by President Clinton to head African Affairs at the National Security Council. We also know that Vice President Cheney doesn't know Wilson and never saw any report from him.

Could it be that he leaked his own wife's name and blamed it on Republicans, much like he's falsely blamed them on more than one occasion for sending him to Niger?