Frank Rich: Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure (10/23 column)

Another great column by Rich, bringing up what Wilkerson said about the "cabal," and pointing out that Joseph Wilson "scared them silly."

Let us hope that "cabal" has their day next week.

And yes, we need to see that cabal indicted before they do any more damage to this country and others.

If you don't want to pay for a subscription to the NY Times for the editorials, check your local library's website to see whether they subscribe to the online version. Unfortunately my library can no longer afford to (the bond issue failed by about 30 votes--what a heartbreaker that was!)--but our library is dead broke so we're the exception; most libraries do get the Times.

their link for today's Rich's column.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305Z.shtml

He had to get in to office the right way once any how. We have just to many men running things that do not care for this country but for them selfs. Like Stevens of Alaska. We need NO 'a bridge to know where'. I think that the Federalist papers went into how this country would fail and this is one of the reasons. Men who do not care for our country running it into the ground.

This is the definitive paragraph:

"For Mr. Rove and Mr. Bush to get what they wanted most, slam-dunk midterm election victories, and for Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney to get what they wanted most, a war in Iraq for reasons predating 9/11, their real whys for going to war had to be replaced by fictional, more salable ones. We wouldn't be invading Iraq to further Rovian domestic politics or neocon ideology; we'd be doing so instead because there was a direct connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda and because Saddam was on the verge of attacking America with nuclear weapons. The facts and intelligence had to be fixed to create these whys; any contradictory evidence had to be dismissed or suppressed."

I'm e-mailing this column to everyone I know.

From the article in the OP:

"But based on what we know about Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's hysterical over-response to Mr. Wilson's accusation, he scared them silly. He did so because they had something to hide. Should Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove have lied to investigators or a grand jury in their panic, Mr. Fitzgerald will bring charges. But that crime would seem a misdemeanor next to the fables that they and their bosses fed the nation and the world as the whys for invading Iraq."


Why would Scooter and Rove become scared of Wilson to the point of outing Wilson's wife. Both these guys are cold operators, I doubt anything Wilson could have said would have mattered to the Rove 'spin machine' pumping out propaganda, so why get excited?

I don't think 'retribution' accounts for this overreaction either.

There is something else in the Plame and the cover company Brewsters and Jennings being worked on that needed to be killed. What could it be?

I think Cheney and Bu$h are deep into the outing too. However the point of lying to start a war shouldn't matter to them, again Rove's machine was blowing full blast. So it wasn't the lies themselves that spooked them. Something else did.

So many questions. There is something much darker at the heart of this. Something that will be a disaster for all of them if it gets out.

But just speculating, suppose all this stuff with Plame/Wilson was a ruse, a plausible reason to set-up the real target, Brewsters and Jennings. After all it was Cheney that sent Wilson to Niger to verify the claims of the forged document. Now why would Cheney do this is if already knew it was phony. He had to know it was phony because their network, Cheney/Rumsfield/Rove(Ledeen) set-up that document to flow through Italy and on to British intelligence to be given to them by the Brits. Of course they knew it was phony, so why send Wilson to verify it, unless they wanted to bust Plame, Brewsters and Jennings all along.

Look what happened after all of this. Shortly later Bu$h places Peter Goss over the CIA and they dump Tenet. OK, what does Goss do? What is his function in this? Maybe they are still looking for any residual left over from blowing Brewster and Jennings out of the water. Goss is there to flush the toilet so to speak.

Then there is Baker making a trip to the Isle of Man. There is a company there with Bu$hs fingerprints all over it, 5 Diamonds I think it's called. Incidentally, there is something like a 3 Diamonds(my memory is fuzzy on this name) that Ledeen was using to pipeline cash on some stuff going on in Africa and the Iran-Contra stuff. Anyway, Baker is Bu$h's legal eagle, this guy pops-up all over the place whenever money is moving. Now the deal is, with Iraq there is a lot of cash that has just disappeared. Maybe it went to 5 Diamonds and from there to Florida to be laundered through highway toll system, through contractors and back to the RNC via guys like DeLay/Noe/Wu/Reed and probably a bunch more. As such, in addition to the oil, the Iraq war is also about an election cash cow the Republicans are using. In other words, for the RNC their expenses have been 'socialized' by this war. Whenever Congress votes money for the Iraq war, its also voting money for the RNC.

Maybe Brewsters and Jennings operators were sniffing out a underground cash flow feeding all these guys. And if this information surfaced, this would have destroyed all the plans these Neocons have been working on for the last 20 years, plus it would have exposed the entire network.

Anyway, all this is speculation and I doubt the tracks for this hypothetical scenario would be right out in the open on the net.

I think something like this, if it were to come out would make every Republican sphincter tighten-up. Yep, that would dynamite that party forever. It would be the end for them.

But all this is speculation.

makes a lot of sense with the repugs.

always the key to any crime of this kind.

Because of all of the layers of deceit and duplicity, I wonder if it is possible to EVER get to the core or to the bottom of this corruption? And I seriously would not be surprised in the end to find some of our beloved Dem leaders involved at some level also - otherwise there is absolutely NO REASON for their CONTINUED SILENCE.

It was the idea of the mentally ill, megalomaniacal president who had stated years ago that a war was the way for a president to attain "greatness". But in his warped mind, he thought war was a matter of choice by the president, not a matter of necessity. Sick puppy.

"Can't be sure" why we went to war in Iraq. We won't know the answer for years, if ever. What a load of horseshit. We were marching in the streets, screaming into their insipid, monkey faces why the corrupt Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq back in 2002 and 2003, and we've been telling them for years since then.

But I guess when a man's paycheck depends on him not seeing something, you can be damn sure he isn't going to see it. The key to both men's ignorance is that they supported the initial invasion, knew precisely what it was all about, and now that it's blown up in their faces (as we told them it would), they have to pretend that they can't for the life of them figure out why we went to war in Iraq.

Assholes. Murderous, duplicitous assholes both.

and his article even better...i offered to marry him this morning..and i am taking first dibbies!!

he wasn't nice about nyt either and especially judy judy judy!!




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