What if the Republican story about the Plame outing is true?

mikelewis

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Fri Jul-22-05 06:09 PM
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What if the Republican story about the Plame outing is true?

Edited on Fri Jul-22-05 06:10 PM by mikelewis

Even though they are ignoring the fact that a crime was committed, their political machine is desperate to paint a picture of a justified motive. The Republicans have said that Joe Wilson was basically lying about the Niger Documents and was put up to it by his CIA wife, Valerie Plame. Now Valerie was also a specialist in WMD proliferation and should have had knowledge of Iraq's WMD capabilities. What ever knowledge she did have was apparently wrong. Obviously, her poor performance led to Bush honestly believing that Iraq had WMD's. Essentially they have insinuated that they were intentionally duped by Valerie and Joe Wilson.

Now, the thing that bothers me about the Iraq war is the fact that Bush and Company leaned very heavily on the WMD angle, going so far as to invoke images of mushroom clouds over a U.S. city. This was pretty powerful imagery, especially from someone who knew that Iraq did not have the weapons or the intent to develop some. Now, there is nothing that I wouldn't put past Bush and that being said, I can't for the life of me imagine why we didn't find weapons of mass destruction.

Let's face it, he could have planted bullshit evidence to justify his claims. Remember the magic passport that passed through the fiery cloud of the plane crashing into the World Trade tower; only to be found by FBI agents hours later, unscathed, plucked like a pin from within that gigantic haystack of rubble? It obviously doesn't even have to be credible for the sheeple to believe it as long as it's something that indicated Saddam had WMD or at least sought them. But he didn't, there was absolutely nothing, not a fucking thing that supported even a hint of this being true.

Now our belief is that they launched a preemptive invasion to find weapons that they knew were not there. I know Bush is stupid but not that fuckin stupid, I mean honestly, you know Wolfowitz and Cheney are not complete retards. If they knew there weren't any weapons, they would have planted them. You know they would have.

I think it's possible that they may have been truly suckered by our very own CIA. I think the Republicans may be actually telling the truth. Now, if the CIA did sucker him into a "slam dunk" impeachment, you have to ask why they would do that? Let's see, the way the majority if America sees it, the CIA is responsible for failing to stop the attacks on 9/11. Because of this they have lost prestige and more importantly funding. Now there are some who believe that there is more than enough evidence to suggest that our Intelligence actually knew about it before hand and let it happen. Rarer still are those who believe it was actually carried out on order from our government as a means of seizing power and furthering a radical global domination plan. {Kooky, huh?} Any of these scenarios bode poorly for the future of the CIA.

Then came Iraq. The publics perception is that the President relied on faulty intelligence from the Central Intelligence Agency and we invaded Iraq for an apparent mistake but, alas, we have applied the Pottery Barn rule and so now we're stuck. Ultimately, the CIA screwed up, yet again. But what if they screwed up on purpose, just like the Republicans are insinuating? I don't know, if I were a CIA agent and wanted to destroy a popular President who was hell bent to paint me as a loser or a traitor, luring him into his own Vietnam may not be such a bad idea. They successfully did it against the Soviets in Afghanistan, maybe they did it again in Iraq against the Neocon's.

Honestly, how hard would it be to lure them in? There's no doubt he and his neocon fanatics wanted to go to Iraq more than a 5 year old wants Christmas so how hard would it be to feed him the things he wanted to see? How hard would it be to play games with Rummy's Intelligence Services? How hard would it be to stall information or even create a bit that misleads? The least this could accomplish would be to stall his global conquest plans, at best, they could get lucky and actually bring him down.

Now, today, we have Karl Rove and Scooter Libby stewing over a pot of very hot lies while they cling ever so tightly to their bosses coat tail. They hang over a gaping hole much deeper than Nixon ever peered down. You gotta ask yourself, how lucky is the CIA? Even if the Republicans are lying through their Christian teeth, you have to admit, the CIA has a lot to gain. Intentional or not, they are single-handedly giving the Democrats a win in the Senate in '06 and most likely the White House in '08. They're virtually destroying the Republican party and ensuring a very friendly administration. Their image may be damaged but their rivals in U.S. intelligence will collapse from their support of Bush and his agenda if the President is impeached. They may be bloodied but they'll be the only one's left standing.

If the Republicans are telling the truth, I would just like to say, thank you to the brave men and women of the CIA who are on our side. If they're lying and the CIA did not dupe them into war, I'd like to say, congratulations CIA. Either way, I think things are about to get real interesting.