Happy birthday, Mr. President. No, make that fuck you.

Happy birthday, Mr. President. No, make that fuck you.

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 3:20 PM PDT

2006/04/09 · 15:20

While the traditional press is finally discovering the details of Traitor-Gate, or at least the easier to understand ones, due, in part at least, to the recent filing by Fitzgerald and his team, the blogosphere is plunging ahead with further analysis and conjecture.

I would like to add one relatively minor, but revealing nonetheless, piece to this puzzle that no one else has, as yet, pointed out.

As we all know, Bush is the type of person that revels in making jokes at others expense. We've all seen him quip at reporters and aids like a frat-boy snapping his towel at the new pledges, dispensing pain and ridicule while all the while secure in the knowledge that none dare challenge his authority.

The rest of the story is below...

We also know that this President is one to hold a grudge, and when the opportunity presents itself to even the score, he does, with interest. See Exhibit "A", the current Iraq war, for an example. Sure there were other motivations for it, but Bush's quote that "he [Saddam] tried to kill my daddy" surely played as big a role as any in his decision to go to war. And we know that Bush values and rewards personal loyalty, to himself at least, above all other virtues, including honesty. When Bush perceives someone as being disloyal to him personally, he will stop at nothing to see them destroyed. This is, of course, done through surrogates, and the methods are varied, but you all are familiar with some of the past cases.

In the lead up to the war, after retuning from his trip to Niger, Ambassador Joseph Wilson had been rattling the cage at the bureaucratic level at the State Dept. and at the Pentagon but he had yet to go public. Letters had been written, memos had been sent, and phone calls had been made, but all to no avail. He was being ignored, and people within the Pentagon had told him that the fix was in and we were going to war irrespective of the facts on the ground. Joseph Wilson was pissed, rightfully so, as he heard the war drums pounding lies into the minds of the American people. He knew that he must do something to get their attention -- both that of the Administration and the American people.

So, like any true patriot would do, he sat at his keyboard and composed a letter to the editor. But this was no ordinary LTE. This was both a birthday gift of truth to the country, though two days belated, and a personal birthday rebuke aimed at the mendacious lies of a sitting President.

Yes, that's right, July 6th is the birthday of our Dear Leader as well as the day Wilson's letter was printed in the NYT.

Now you know why Bush and company were so pissed that the truth got out.

It wasn't only because Wilson put a turd in their war rationale punch bowl, that would have been bad enough, but because that turd also had a big sign on it saying: "FUCK YOU, YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT. OH, AND HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY, DICKHEAD."

That sure got Bush's attention, and thankfully though belatedly, the rest of the country's too.

Thanks Joe.

BTW: It's my birthday too... ;-)

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