LTTE:
I’ve quite had it.
I’ve been a registered Republican since I was of voting age. Let’s just say it’s been a little while since then… and now I’m furious. I’m a Republican because I believe in many real Republican and Conservative values. I believe in fiscal responsibility. People’s right to privacy, and I believe in individual state’s rights because that is what a Republic provides for. I also bother to listen to what people have to say and weigh their opinions in light of our mutual and respective views… even if we disagree.
But what I have been seeing lately is nothing short of abhorrent.
The divisions in this country are suppurated lesions of willful ignorance. There is no doubt that today; our country is more politically divided than ever.
In fact I saw a poll just this last January from CNN that reports that the “nation is split over whether Bush is a uniter or a divider”… you heard it right… 48% said he was a ‘uniter’, 48% said he was a ‘divider’, and 4% were ‘undecided’.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/pollWhat’s that tell ya?
Well now we have the ultimate psychological experiment… (Nearly) half of the country pointing to the 500 lb Gorilla in the room and shouting “LOOK!”, and the other (nearly) half saying, “I’m not falling for that one! You’re obviously trying to confuse the issue.” Right before the gorilla decides that the latter (nearly) half is ‘fair game’.
The harder either ‘side’ pushes, the less likely the other ‘side’ is to listen… no matter whom the gorilla in the room is sitting on.
So here’s my gorilla;
We, the people of the United States of America, owned a CIA asset before and as of July 9th 2005. This particular asset was directly responsible for brokering the sales of items that might be used for the production of WsMD. It was instrumental in our ability to gather intelligence on bad nasty people who wanted big mean weapons. This particular asset, named ‘Brewster-Jennings and Associates’, had been around long enough to establish contacts in foreign countries, get leads on who from and who to items were going, and probably a great deal more. (I’d know if I had some security clearance.)
As of the Fourteenth of July in the Year of our Lord 2003, that asset was irrevocably compromised. As a result, we lost all of the contacts, we lost all of the informants, and we lost all of the intelligence gathering capability in the field that Mrs. Plame/Wilson helped to cultivate as an asset. We lost one of the things that help to keep America, and the World, safe.
Brewster-Jennings and Associates is gone.
They used to keep track of where WsMD (Weapons of mass destruction) might be built and by whom.
I do not feel safer now that one of our own has compromised this asset.
Whoever is responsible for the destruction of this critical component of our National Security should be made to face the American public. And they, with full knowledge of the offense, should judge him.
These are irrefutable facts; someone revealed the identity of a CIA operative. As a result, the United States of America lost a valuable national security asset.
Period.
The facts are the facts. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they are not entitled to their own facts. The facts here tell a very real story of treason at the highest levels of our government. The facts are quite insistent that our ‘War on Terror’ is a miserable failure. Our facts are quite clear in the assertion that Iraq was no military threat to us of any kind. The facts have made visible that our invasion of Iraq may have been planned as early as 1997. The facts tell us that our administration is out of touch with reality. And the facts tell us very clearly that half of America thinks all of America stands united.
To me, that means that at least half of America isn’t paying any attention.
-Dr. E
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