Reality sends chills through halls of power

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20051005/ts_krwashbureau/_galloway_column

By Joseph L. Galloway, Knight Ridder Newspapers Wed Oct 5, 5:08 PM ET

"WASHINGTON - A truly horrible summer that seemed unending is finally fading away, and the cold winds of reality are blowing down the collars of a president and the key players in his administration. Those winds could foretell an even more terrible winter ahead.

The folks who prided themselves on sticking to the message like grass-burrs on a hairy dog suddenly are all over the map on everything that counts when you are a lame-duck president whose party is going into a critical midterm congressional election next year. ..."

It popped up early this year, went away, and this is at least the second time I've heard it this week.

Fitzgerald is about to clear out the White House. After proper fumigation, we'll take over.

The suspense... gotta believe, though.

If that wasn't enough, new life was blown into the prisoner abuse scandal this past week by a young West Point-educated captain, Ian Fishback, who didn't like what he was hearing about the physical abuse of Iraqi detainees by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division and asked his superiors for guidance on standards of conduct.

Eventually he went public and wrote to Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., and Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., the top-ranking members of the Senate Armed Service Committee. His actions helped ensure that an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that would flatly outlaw any cruel and unusual treatment of detainees in American custody anywhere in the world would pass over Bush's threat of a veto and the Republican Senate leadership's attempt to block a vote.

The amendment is sponsored by McCain, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-N.C., and Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb. Some who opposed it went so far as to say publicly that our forces should be given the freedom to use the terrorists' own methods against those we capture.

If we are to become as cruel and inhumane as al-Qaeda, then why fight al-Qaeda? We will then have become no better than al-Qaeda and we might as well make deals with Osama bin Laden as we once sent people like Rumsfeld to do deals with Saddam Hussein.

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news if indeed McCains amendment passed.

ment passes.

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Snip from article, "In Washington, a federal grand jury is investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. If it's going to indict some of the president's leading men, it must act before Oct. 28 when its writ runs out. What will George W. Bush do if his brain, Karl Rove, is charged with conspiracy or perjury? What if Rove is joined in the dock by Dick Cheney's right-hand man, Scooter Libby?"

"The word on the streets of Washington and in the halls of the Pentagon is that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld is seriously considering handing in his letter of resignation sometime this month."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20051005/ts_krwashbureau/_galloway_column

Oh yeah... faith & believe with fingers of hope crossed behind our backs.

I think that might cause me to shed some tears of joy.

a miracle occurs.

I can dream, can't I??

:popcorn:

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