What a dufus! And this is our President!!!!!
Ken Sanders at the Democratic Underground puts the Rove/Libby/Plame debacle in the proper context, IMHO. Whether or not anyone is indicted, the real injustice is that Bushco has tarnished the White House and the USA with their doctrines and actions.
Born-again and sober as a judge, Bush promised to deliver us from Clinton's legacy of sin and debauchery. Instead, Bush defrauded the nation into an intractable war in Iraq, resulting in tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and likely increasing the terrorist threat to our national security in the process. To conceal his Ponzi scheme, Bush and his cronies endangered the life of a CIA operative and her contacts, as well as further undermined national security.
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Once the the Niger claim was revealed to be fabricated and false, the White House pled scrivener's error [a clerical error] and George Tenet took the fall. In honor of his distinguished service in misleading the public, Tenet was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kudos for a job well-done.
Turd Blossom and Scooter, if indicted, will likely be pardoned and given the same treatment.
The real crime is:
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The Niger claim, however, was only a part of the Bush administration's overall fabrication of bases for invading Iraq. The revelations in the Downing Street Memos that Bush & Co. "fixed" the intelligence around the policy of regime change in Iraq reveal a broader scheme by the White House to falsify and fabricate intelligence to justify the administration's predisposition to invade Iraq.
Further, the MSM doesn't seem to want to get to the bottom of this:
The White House has never denied the Memos' authenticity nor attempted to explain the Memos' claim of fixed intelligence. The press has not insisted that it do so. Indeed, the White House has yet to be pressed to explain anything about the Memos, much less about how or even if the White House manipulated intelligence to garner support for the Iraq war. For the most part, the press still takes the word of the White House as the gospel truth. Knowing this, the Bush administration has little to fear.
I would like to see us push these facts more (instead of just pounding for Rove's & Libby's skins)and maybe the MSM will begin to concentrate on the real reason for the actions being investigated by Fitzgerald and the GJ.
It's not just the unfortunate circumstances of Mrs. Wilson's cover being blown. There are far greater "crimes" that need to be revealed in the bright glare of the public spotlight.
The question, then, is this: who will restore dignity to the White House following the damage done by the Bush administration?
AMEN!