About Time for an Iraq Investigation

Everyone it seems talks about an Iraq investigation but no one calls for one. Why not? We don't seem to worry about opening cans of worms, otherwise we wouldn't be in Iraq, so why don't we settle the question about why and how we got into a war with Iraq? We value politics over truth is the answer so far. There are too many propagandists out there muddying the waters as well as a disinterested public who don't bother to look up the facts and ponder upon them if they are confronted with the facts. That is a costly mistake--2000 plus troops as well as hundreds of billions of dollars down the drain. Iraq isn't worth it in the long run. It will never be a stable place and we, like the Israelis, will never be tolerated in that area.

U.S. Generals and Iraq propaganda

Everyone needs to keep in mind that our officer corps are part of the administration's propaganda arm. We are engaged in a war in Iraq that is the result of someone's brainchild. Someone had this great idea--establish a democracy in the Middle East and voila the dictators will roll over and play dead. Democracy solves all problems is the present argument--it replaces evil etc. Anyway back to the Generals; they are part of the propaganda machine--anything the military says is designed to keep the troops and the home folk bamboozled. The military gets all the toys they want if everyone is in lock-step behind the military and in this case also the administration. So when you hear a General or other high rank officer speak think propaganda.

Scooter Libby Indictment

Does anyone really believe that Libby acted on his own--that is if he is the one that "outed" Plame. Who else could have been infolved in the act? Novak said it came from someone in the administration and a low-level type wouldn't have acted on his own to justify the war in Iraq. So if you use reverse logic it had to be someone who was high up and had a personal stake in our going to war against Iraq. Who were the most outspoken? Bush and Cheney campaigned the most but because of their positions would have left "dirty tricks" to their underlings, which points to Rove and Libby. Rove was fired before by a Bush for engaging in "leaking" information to Bob Novak. So Rove has a history for "tricks". Libby is characterized as a "zealot" and was in a possition to know "classified" information he didn't have a need to know. The media types, like Chris Matthews, keeps apologizing for those in the adminstration by repeatedly making it a question that outing a CIA operative was against the law. Revealing any classified information is against the law, everyone who handles classified information takes a loyalty oath that stipulates the consequences for anyone divulging classified info. One statement no one has made is; anyone revealing classified info is unfit to work in the White House--period. No need for parsing legalities there. Why was Plame outed in the first place? What was the intent? Trying to paint Ambassador Wilson as a "mama's boy'; that he couldn't get a job without his wife's help? Somehow that doesn't seem valid. The very fact that several reporters were given the same information about Wilson's wife being a CIA agent points to a very definite reason for doing so; i.e., not a casual "dropping" of a fact. What difference would it make to the uranium/Iraq thing if she was a CIA agent. If anything that would give more credance to his analysis if she was a CIA agent. The only reason left then is that "they", the Wislons, would suffer somehow. No one has countered his analysis, on the contrary, many have pointed out the unlikelyhood that Niger had uranium to sell Saddam in the first place, and even more significant, he couldn't have processed it if he had it. It is somewhat amusing to see the media chasing their tails--circular arguments chasing the false facts, followed up by faulty inferences.

Hurricanes

How fast does a Hurricane change? You'd think, watching channel news programs, that they will change any minute, effect everybody, and other news doesn't matter whenever one of them shows up. You would think too that every hurricane is different when you watch news reporters stand out in the wind and rain and tell everyone that it is windy and rainy in a hurricane. I call them Dan Rather wannabees, since reporting a hurricane is how he got his big break.