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by hopesprings
(Crossposted at http://www.dailykos.com by hopesprings
The Guardian has a devastating article about the US hitting Iran - and makes some good points why our Admin would have powerful motive to do so. LINK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1549198,00.html The International community is taking Bush's "every option is on the table" remark damned seriously, people, and so should we. This isn't empty rhetoric. This is deadly business and part of the reason Bush seems to think ignoring Cindy Sheehan isn't going to hurt him, any. He and the neocons have bigger fish to fry - at least, in their warped PNAC-addled minds. (See quote from the article below the fold:) Read more... (7 comments, 689 words in story) by hopesprings
(Cross posted on Dailykos.com)http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/11/193753/615
Any defense Rove may be contemplating that there was some sort of inadvertent "slip of the tongue" involved in his mention of Plame to Cooper (and Lord knows who else) should fall short of the mark when one takes into account the bigger picture here - the runup to war, and the single-minded plan the administration had to bully and threaten the intelligence community into sticking by the official story about those oh so elusive WMD's. It all goes back to lying - and not just listening to "flawed intelligence" - but actually manipulating and planting FAKE intelligence. If that ain't a crime, I don't know what is. As has been diaried here in the recent past, pure "vindictiveness" against Wilson probably was not be the sole reason Rove outed Plame. Wilson was too close to the truth...but so were many in the CIA. Including, probably, Plame herself. And in order to keep the truth from getting out to the public, the entire intelligence community had to be castrated, or, silenced by force or threat. (more below) Read more... (5 comments, 1288 words in story) |
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