Just another brick in the wall…

The information released today about the President authorizing the leak of classified information in the Valerie Plame investigation is just one more brick in the wall of shame for this administration. An administration which systematically manipulated the legitimate fear of the American people following the attacks of 9-11-2001 to justify the invasion of Iraq.

It is not the poor planning for which they need to pay a price, for it was wrong from inception. No, it was their lack of critical thinking, at best, and outright deceit, at worst, for which they need to be held accountable.

Brick by brick by brick they laid the foundation for a war, which they knew, would never have been justified under their real reasons for engagement. Instead, these bricks were formed through falsehoods, deception, and preying upon a shaken public. They tapped into the most basal instincts of uncertainty, mistrust and fear of the unknown, not just to divide the country, but to divide the world.

And today, many lie buried under that wall.

Tragic.

to make this thing, or something a little "smaller" happen. The lies they told themselves and then us. It's utter Folly.

I'm surprised and shocked.

And Very Sad.

As a healthy skeptic, it is surprising and shocking and very sad in this case to have your skeptic view confirmed.

Makes Nixon look good.

I've been watching the thing from the first "possibility of war" I heard on NPR, wondering if I was being a Bush-hater because I just couldn't agree with what he was doing. I couldn't stop thinking about it, but everyone else didn't seem to be bothered.

we were going to war, that there was nothing that Saddam could say or do to prevent it. I tried to tell them that Bush was determined to invade Iraq. I pointed out to them the many excuses that he went through trying to find one that would unite the American people to support his plans. They all thought I was just angry because I didn't like Bush and they fell right in line behind Bush and his lame excuses.

There are absolutely no good feelings about being proved right.

The inspections were working. It was a great moment, something wonderful could have happened.

I sat in a downtown city park and cried March 20.

that he couldn't even let the inspections take place. He insulted the U.N., alienated our allies and has been responsible for the deaths of more than 2,300 American soldiers and countless Iraqis and all to satisfy his ego and carry out the wishes of PNAC. It will be decades before we can fully assess the damage he has done to our nation. It's enough to make you weep.

First-graders get sad news about 'adopted' soldier
Franklin Elementary's 'Private Joe' died last Thursday in Iraq
By JILL CECIL WIERSMA
Staff Writer

FRANKLIN — There's no good time in the school day to give bad news about a friend's death.

So administrators at Franklin Elementary School waited until just before the school day's end yesterday to let a first-grade class know that the Fort Campbell soldier they "adopted" died after a recent mission in Iraq.

"We want to give them a little time to absorb it," Assistant Principal Marcella Crenshaw said. "It's a lot to absorb for 5- and 6-year-old children. Children are very resilient, but it depends on their personal lives and what they've dealt with like this before."

Pfc. Joseph Duenas — or "Private Joe" as the children called him — visited the school with a group from Fort Campbell at the beginning of the school year. He was adopted by Lisa Kozlik's first-grade class, which spent a day getting to know the 23-year-old soldier.

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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200...

:cry:

deliver that news.

I was watching an interview with Scott Ritter about 12 months ago, and I was surprised to hear that he actually votes Republican. At least he had the guts to call it as it was.