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What a story: (Where is the Times? The Post?)
It’s hard to deny that for personal monetary and political gain, these Republican-Corp creeps have torn the eyes and ears out of our intelligence apparatus — perhaps literally– and are now busy driving the brains out of it. There is a ghastly human cost to this, as you say. And if there is one thing an empire needs to have in order to keep running, it’s a bright and subtle intelligence apparatus, not a FEMA-Katrina bunch of bungling political Stooges. These guys are killing our empire as well as our Constitution.
But all empires die, perhaps for the same reasons.

16 Words: How the Bush Administration Slamdunked the American People [to Go to War]

Thanks so much for your efforts, Marcy and FDL. Good luck with the book!

Nan

Watergate (or the burglary of) did not bring down the Nixon administration–the coverup did. The Iran-Contra arms swap-for-cash wouldn’t have brought down the Reagan administration either. But the cover-up almost did. That is until Reagan finally admitted to it and apologized to the American people that he supposedly did not know until after the fact that it had occured (that is still highly debateable!). And the coverup of the Monica affair almost brought down the Clinton administration. This has always been about going into a war of choice by this administration but pumping up the propoganda to make everybody on this side of the curtain feel it was an unavoidable and urgently needed action. Afterall a war of neccesity could be justified be the actions taken by this administration to divert troops to Iraq if it appeared it was covered be the legislative autority given to it by our representatives in Congress in the fall of 2002. However, a war of choice, not proven justifiable or APPROVED by language in that piece of legislation might well be grounds for impeachment (especially if there was intent to mislead the Congress, the nation and even the U.N. to begin such a misadventure). This is why the coverup is the initial crime here and the outing of Plame and the demonizing of her husband were only continuation of that coverup.
There is now ample evidence this administrations goal from the very beginning (indeed even before the Supremes crowned them supposedly victors in 2000) was to find a way to go back to Iraq and this time go all the way to Bagdad. Don’t forget the intent for action–to bring down Sadam. There was speeches before 2000 by Rice about regime change in Iraq. There was O’Neils’ book “The Price of Loyalty”. There were the Downing Street memos (www.afterdowningstreet.org.). Etc., etc., etc.
The motivation by this administration has been and can be well documented it was looking for a reason…any reason… to go to war in Iraq. What was missing was legitimate, urgent, and neccessary reasons the public would not only buy but get behind. There still has been little discussion of how the Niger forgeries ended up in British and American hands, who forged them and why they kept re-surfacing inside this administration regardless of the number of times they had been discredited by numerous professionals inside the Intel community.
LaRepublica, the Italian newsprint of note, has published several stories on this (forged) material (can be found at http://www.prospect .org.–American Prospect Online) but it has gotten very meager coverage on the net and absolutely none in the MSM (go figure). With the latest Senate Intelligence Committee findings about no connection between Sadam and al-Qaeda or bin-Laden, advice by the Energy Department disputing the alumunum tubes for centrifuges claims, and the amazing (see report by Carnegie Jan. 04 report-on WMD pre-war evaluation) revealations of no pre-war WMD it becomes clearer each and every passing day the need for this administration to have the MSM stating thier was no crime committed here because Karl Rove was not indicted.
The real story is becoming increasing clear this administration, while ignoring thier own CIA, State, and Energy Departments, went shopping for any and all information to justify thier actions and intent of invading Iraq simply because they wanted to, even if that information had to made up. Rice has often stated she did not know how the 16 words made it’s way into the State of the Union address even after it had been removed, upon CIA request, at least from one previous speech the President made in 2002. It is very interesting then that the Niger forgeries first surfaced (according to LaRepublica) at a time the critical vote in Congress authorizing the President to use all neccessary force to disarm Sadam was being debated. Since the forgeries were first peddled to an Italian journalist, it is interesting to note that Stephen Hadley had a secret meeting in Washington on Sept. 9, 2002 with Nicolo Pollari, chief of Italy’s military intelligence service (SISMI) one month before the forgeries surfaced. That’s the Stephen Hadley who at the time was Deputy National Security Advisor directly under Rice.
The outing of Plame was a response to not only coverup the known but ignored warnings that the claim Sadam was attempting to obtain yellowcake from Niger was false but to distract the MSM and the public that the evidence cited by the President was purposely falsified to assist in obtaining a rationale for going to war. A rationale that if investigated thoroghly would demostrate that it wasn’t just bad intel that got us into Iraq. It was Itel made up from whole cloth that never existed before. That is the crime. That is the original impeachable offense. That is the reason this administration keeps up the propoganda campaign and why it committed the additional crime of outing a covert CIA agent. Folks it’s called survival and that is this administration is struggling to maintain. That is why the whole truth needs to be told. Jack

Cheney, et. al., had wanted to overthrow the government in Iraq for a long time. Bush was pulled into their circle as he started planning for his Presidential election run in 1998. In a debate in New Hampshire in December of 1999, he said that he would invade Iraq. This had been in the planning stages for a long time. When Cheney came to power, he had the apparatus of State that would allow him to pursue that goal.

I think that getting the historical backstory right is good for the preface.

Here’s a short list of what I think get’s the crazies to sleep every night:

1)WILSON LIED!! Wilson is liar. He lied about who sent him to Niger and he lied about Iraq aquiring or attempting to aquire uranium from Niger. His op-ed is a lie.

2) Because WILSON LIED!!! he outed his own wife when he wrote the op-ed.

3) Plame was not under cover. She was not a covert operative. She was not a NOC. Remember, Janitors work at the CIA too. Therefore, no damage was done.

4) Because of the massive turf war between the CIA and the white house, the CIA requested a DOJ investigation into the leaking of Plame’s identity as a means of getting political payback for having to take the blame for the bad pre war intelligence.

5) The Butler report vindicates the Bush administration and proves that the British also believe that Iraq aquired or attempted to acquire uranium from Niger.

6) Bush was not the first one to suggest Iraq had nukes. The threat of Iraq possessing nukes was not the straw that broke the camel’s back turning public opinion in favor of invading Iraq.

GIVE ‘EM HELL JANE!

Watching Mehlman spend an entire Sunday saying “exonerates, doesn’t implicate” gives me much sympathy for TRex’s recent, er, Pam troubles.