Now, getting back to issue that we’d been discussing
Now, in his fifth year in office, Bush appears to have decided that “honor and dignity” has less to do with it than he would have had us believe. Bush may have to skirt “honor and dignity” if he is to retain the counsel of Karl Rove, who is deputy White House chief of staff and has admitted discussing the CIA job of Valerie Plame Wilson with two journalists…. If the president clings to his only-if-criminal standard, he will be indicating that like “honor and dignity” he doesn’t take trafficking in security information for political gain, even from the most senior advisers, very seriously at all.
- Cragg Hines
The timing of the nomination of John Roberts for the Supreme Court was, I would imagine, done with the hope that the attention focused on Roberts would take some of the heat off of Karl Rove. Nice try. Though Roberts’ nomination may have been the story of the day for a day or two, Rove is back in the crosshairs as if he’d never left. This is a good thing, because as time passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that Rove outed Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent in a partisan effort to hurt her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Rove should have known better (and from all indications he did), and he had to have known that his act of vengeance was a felony. If nothing else, he could have at least constructed a story that would hold up under scrutiny.
So much for George W. Bush restoring honor and dignity to the White House, eh?
When a conspiracy is unraveling, and it’s every liar and his lawyer for themselves, the story takes on a momentum of its own. When the conspiracy is, at its heart, about the White House’s twisting of the intelligence used to sell the American people a war - and its desperate efforts to cover up that flimflam once the W.M.D. cupboard proved bare and the war went south - the story will not end until the war really is in its “last throes.”
Only 36 hours after the John Roberts unveiling, The Washington Post nudged him aside to second position on its front page. Leading the paper instead was a scoop concerning a State Department memo circulated the week before the outing of Joseph Wilson’s wife, the C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame, in literally the loftiest reaches of the Bush administration - on Air Force One. The memo, The Post reported, marked the paragraph containing information about Ms. Plame with an S for secret. So much for the cover story that no one knew that her identity was covert.
Now will y’all believe that Bush lied his way into the war in Iraq? Can there any longer be any lingering doubt that the Bush Administration is incapable of displaying that honesty and integrity that they rode into Washington pledging to restore to the White House? This Administration is no different, and in many cases is even worse, than any other Republican Adminstration. Truth may be the first casualty of war, but for Republicans, truth is the first casualty of politics. The ONLY thing the Bush Administration cares about is power. If you have to break a few eggs or obliterate the truth along the way, so be it.
Congratulations, America. You elected the idiot, and you are every bit as much to blame for 1900 dead American soldiers in Iraq as George W. Bush is. You’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for so long now that you can no longer tell when you are being lied to by Our Sainted President.
Here’s a hint for future reference. You’ll know that George W. Bush is lying when his lips are moving.
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