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Monday, July 11, 2005

     Karl Rove needs to be tried for treason.  To reveal a name of a C.I.A. undercover agent specializing in investigating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,at a time when we most need all of the top-notch people we can get with that specialty, is beyond irresponsible.

     To do it for intimidation, to mislead the public, and for partisan politics is unforgivable.

     And I don't care what deal Robert “douchebag of liberty” Novak cut to get off.  He needs to serve some time.  He's the one who broke the story.  Rove leaked the information, but it was Novak's pen that made it public.

     As Oliver Willis points out, this just goes to show that this administration doesn't care about finding and neutrilizing terrorists to make us safer.  The effort in Iraq doesn't make us safer.

     All it does is make Halliburton richer on tax dollars, by outsourcing more and more of our national security to the friends and business partners of our leadership:

     “To fill the pivotal support jobs for deployments to Iraq, Army and Pentagon planners are increasingly turning to the Navy and Air Force to provide truck drivers and security personnel. They are relying on more Army reservists to volunteer for extended duty, hiring more private contractors and accelerating the retraining of thousands of soldiers who had been essential to the cold war, like artillerymen, to be civil affairs and military intelligence troops needed for counterinsurgency operations.”  (New York Times)

Monday, July 11, 2005 6:52:08 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [2] | #
Monday, July 11, 2005 3:06:02 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Of course they aren't trying to make us safer. If we were actually safer, would anyone be voting for them? In order to create and maintain a perpetual state of fear that prevents people from making rational political decisions, they need a constant level of fear punctuated by occasional terrorist attacks. And since I believe they are still reluctant to order such attacks themselves, it's better for them if a certain number of attacks are 'allowed' to get through the security net. I wonder how long it will be before they dispense with the middle men and simply launch the rockets directly from the Ministry of Peace.
The Evil Cub
Monday, July 11, 2005 3:29:14 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Cub,

I don't think they are conciously allowing terrorist attacks to succeed either, but I DO think that they are not pursuing terrorism...but are pursuing their personal business agenda in the middle east,and just trying to bat a thousand with prevention as a second-string sort of focus...all the while propping up the very conditions that contribute to the terrorism.

It really seems to be a case of "we have to be right every time, they only have to be right once"...but if we were really focused on finding terrorists and working diplomatically...including diplomatic pressure, I think we could get to them pretty much anywhere without having to invade. It might take longer in some cases, but it would probably be a hell of a lot cheaper, a hell of a lot less collateral damage, and would endear us to the rest of the world a hell of a lot more...

...but that's the sort of thing we need people like Valerie Plame for.
Kemaris
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