I have a theory about O’Neill, he is physically very sick

[Timefortruth]

Seriously, he had to have known the kind of criminals who he is dealing with but went in with both guns loaded, as if he had nothing to lose. His side of the secret document story is that everything he took with him was vetted by the attorneys at Treasury, but that won’t mean a thing when the witch hunt begins.

He must be thinking that he truly has nothing to lose.

[wtmusic]

1. Either that or

he has everything to lose--he just wants to do what's right

[tinrobot]

2. Nah...

He said something about being too old and too rich to be a target.

I think the man just has a conscience, unlike the others. There actually are conservatives who have them, you know...

Besides, the cat is already out of the bag, I bet those 19,000 documents have been copied and stashed in a number of places.

[spindoctor]

7. Closer quote

"I am too old and too rich. They can't hurt me."

(quoted from memory though)

[rooboy]

11. What can they do to old, rich people....

throw them in jail for the rest of their lives. O'Neill still has things to lose...

[jbfam4]

3. Or very very very

naive thinking no one would come after him for telling the truth.

This administration can't handle the truth and it certainly doesn't want the American people to know it.

Will there be a court order to stop the sale of this book?

[MasonJar]

4. NPR news had a Brookings Institute mouthpiece on,

saying that it will not hurt Bush. He does get away with everything, but this will not go away. Clark and Dean will keep it out there; hopefully they all will.

[rumguy]

5. O'Neill was from day one a different breed of conservative than Bush

and his thugs...

Remember, he turned a company around, and is used to dealing with facts and reality, not spin and ideology...

Then there's pathetic Bush, who skated by with help from the BFEE...

O'Neill = real man

Bush = incompetent bully

[izzie]

9. Maybe he is a real Republican?

The zealots run the party now.What are they Conservative about?

[Malva Zebrina]

6. Wilson went in with both guns loaded also and he looks healthy to me

I think that if one exhibits fearlessness, one is better off. Tippy toeing around in fear of Bush is rather giving him the upper hand. It is when one exhibits fear that people like Rove and Bush know they can overtake them. That is why I like Kucinich and also Dean. Actually I love Kucinich.

[Sir_Shrek]

8. O'Neill was never Bush's man anyway....

...he was always more a Nixon type of guy, whereas Bush is more Reagan.

[HereSince1628]

10. Well, I'd keep my eye out for brain tumors...

Pappy Bush sure lost a few good men that way.

[worldgonekrazy]

12. My guess is that O'Neill figures he can't be offed if he is high-profile

Thats why it all came out with a boom. No chance for the BFEE to have him "commit suicide" without it clearly being a hit now. Of course, that doesn't mean they won't do it anyway. I suspect they were probably emboldened by getting away with the David Kelly murder.

[Puglover]

13. Look at it this way...when the Repubs and the whore media beat up on

the democratic candidates for dissing each other what a perfect come back it will be to remind them of Oneills book on Bunnypants and his henchman. Hasnt't that freak Rove already said Lieberman has provided him with perfect campaign commercials?

[Serenity-NOW]

14. Perhaps his comment is intended to be a call to action

for rich old people with a conscience. Soros did it and in spite of the beliefs of 'immortal teenagers', people with some history can and often do have greater understanding.

Of course there are also guys like * who isn't clever enough to vanquish a pretzel.

I suspect we see more of this kind of 'hey I've had my fun, it's time to pass the torch'.

As we approach the end of oil it will be interesting to see what people do. Nobody who loves America wants to see her people stomped into the dirt. That is perhaps what the * administration is working for but since they started with rubbish they can't produce anything but. GIGO

[kskiska]

15. If my memory is correct,

I recall O'Neill being angry immediately after being fired a year ago. I figured something like this would happen. He wasn't a happy camper the way some other former employees are. He was giving off the same vibes that Don Regan was before he wrote that book trashing the Reagans, especially Nancy.

[mike1963]

16. I don't recall anger, particularly, but he was treated badly for 'crying'.

At the time, I wondered - like "wtf", but in retrospect, I'm wondering if the emotion was genuine at being so ill-treated and betrayed. I do know he objected to the obscene tax cuts for the rich. As I mentioned in another thread, I've known quite a few very wealthy and powerful people and that doesn't automatically make them bad people. O'Neill does not strike me as a guy seeking revenge. But the maladministration's attempt to investigate him sure does.
:eyes:

[Must_B_Free]

17. "I'm old, and I'm rich, and there's nothing they can do to me"

that was his response.

[Unknown Known]

18. I think O'Neill is in CYA mode now

Look - he was in on intelligence info, NSC, and CEO of Alcoa. He's no dummy and he hasn't suddently gained a conscience. He probably knows stuff we don't - like maybe the boom is readying to drop. Could it be that he's distancing himself right now.

Watching him on the interview last night I couldn't help but laugh when he said that about why would they be mad at him for telling the truth. O'Neill is one wiley coyote:evilgrin: