Well, It's About TIME!!!!!!!

I'd avoided almost all talk of politics this week because I have been so disgusted by the limp appendaged GOP majority "leadership" in DC.  Let's review what was raising my blood pressure a few pegs:

A two-bit analyst whose identity as a CIA employee was common knowledge around the Beltway took on way too much importance.  Two years of investigation and she isn't definable as covert or any of the other requirements of the law and yet someone is indicted over alleged untruths in regard to a crime that was never committed...this juxtaposed to Sandy Berger stuffing documents from the National Archives down his pants and then destroying them and a leak to the press about CIA prison operations in other countries seems like small peanuts and yet it's ALL anyone can talk about.

Then, you have 25 idiotic Representatives (mine included) forming some Main Street collaboration (translate: middle of the road weaklings) pandering to environmentalist caterwalling about unsupportable claims involving drilling in ANWR.  The exploration verbage was removed from upcoming legislation and I can only marvel at the stupidity of it all.  The exploration is done during a time when the environment isn't the wiser and no marring of the landscape is done.  The region promises the second largest oil reserve in our nation's history and we're not going to explore it.

What we WILL spend time doing, however, is grilling oil executives on Capitol Hill about their companies making profits.  WHAT?!  Why aren't we grilling media executives and demanding they turn over percentages of THEIR profits to those too lazy to get off their asses, find work and pay their damn bills?  Either they are too stupid to understand basic Econ 101 or they are pretending to be so because it makes them look good to the illiterate populace who actually think that this kind of bloviating will lead to anything productive.  You have some dude building a bridge to NOWHERE in Alaska when, for the same cost, he could buy the inhabitants of the island private planes to reach the mainland and we're worried about what EXXON is doing????  When this jackass gets the check for his bridge it's OUR TAX DOLLARS he's using...why isn't that raising anyone's eyebrows?

And for months, the revisionist history of the War on Terror has infuriated me!  The thumb-sucking, pablam swilling minions whose Mama is the mainstream media have been hell bent on denying the truth and ignoring things that are historical FACT.  For months I have been disillusioned by the President's seeming capitulation to all the whining and his reluctance to enact the policies he ran on in '04.  WHERE WAS THE GWB I KNEW AND LOVED?!?!?!

I just couldn't bring myself to do much more than fire off a condescending e-mail to Mike Turner in Washington and blog my brains out on other topics.  Then, today, as if from the beyond, I heard a voice of reason and fact that brought a bit of relief to my furrowed brow.  A Veterans' Day speech by GWB noted the obvious and reminded everyone of the truth.

I'll leave you those two gems I culled from Michelle Malkin's site for a reading assignment.  Not sure if better late then never applies in all cases, but in this one, I felt a bit better after I was able to exhale.

Comments

[Greg]

WOW!! I though it was one of my posts....GOOD VENT!!

[Jude Fawley]

”…These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs...”

Nicely said Mr. Rove! And nicely read Mr. Bush! Sadly, this statement isn’t exactly true. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence isn’t finished its investigation into possible distortions of intelligence by officials in the Bush Administration. And the chairman of Bush's commission on WMD, Judge Laurence H. Silberman, said “Our executive order did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policymakers, and all of us were agreed that that was not part of our inquiry."

”…They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein”.

This is, of course, and echo of what Dick Cheney said in January 2004 [Note: Since Bush has emphatically stated that he DOES NOT read newspapers, I’m not implying that he stole the idea from Dick) :

”The reporting that we had prior to the war ... basically said that he had a chemical, biological and nuclear program, and estimated that if he could acquire fissile material, he could have a nuclear weapon within a year or two. Based on that there wasn't any way the administration could ignore those findings of the intelligence community in terms of thinking about the threat that Saddam Hussein represented.”

Yeah! You tell ‘em, Dick! Oh, but maybe you should also tell ‘em that what that report actually said was that the Iraqis could acquire nuclear bombs, but that it would most likely take them four to six years to do so. The only way that the one or two year scenario would be plausible would be if the Iraqis were able to acquire fissile material on the black market and that would be highly unlikely, since they’d tried since the 1970’s and filed each time.

Sweet and Sour Jesus on an open-faced bun, Dick, you should be more careful! By stressing the unlikely one-to-two-year scenario over the much, much more plausible four-to-six-year scenario it kinda looks like you manipulated intelligence in an attempt to deceive the American public. And nobody, and I mean NOBODY, likes a fibber!