Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Why the Libby Trial Matters
It matters for the same reason that Congress needs to conduct hearings on how the Bush administration cherry-picked and stove-piped intelligence on "Iraqi WMDs."
Beause even after their criminal incompetence has become obvious to all, the Bushits can still say with a straight face, "Everyone thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
The statement is a lie in ways that Democrats should be able to rattle off like arithmetic.
Indeed, is a testament to the continuing inadequacy of the Democratic message machine that Bushits still complain, largely without challenge, that "we were all victims of a massive intelligence-gathering failure." The consensus fiction also persists because it absolves other political elites (including many Dems and most of the major media) who didn't have direct access to raw intelligence data but who trusted Bushit as far as they could throw him and conspired to pump up the Monkey King's credibility because, at a time of severe crisis, he was "the only president we've got."
More than all this, though, the conceit is the last thread suspending the dark, tattered soul of conservatism.
When it snaps, God willing, the conservative movement will descend into ignominy or irrelevance.
Let freedom rip.
Beause even after their criminal incompetence has become obvious to all, the Bushits can still say with a straight face, "Everyone thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
The statement is a lie in ways that Democrats should be able to rattle off like arithmetic.
Indeed, is a testament to the continuing inadequacy of the Democratic message machine that Bushits still complain, largely without challenge, that "we were all victims of a massive intelligence-gathering failure." The consensus fiction also persists because it absolves other political elites (including many Dems and most of the major media) who didn't have direct access to raw intelligence data but who trusted Bushit as far as they could throw him and conspired to pump up the Monkey King's credibility because, at a time of severe crisis, he was "the only president we've got."
More than all this, though, the conceit is the last thread suspending the dark, tattered soul of conservatism.
When it snaps, God willing, the conservative movement will descend into ignominy or irrelevance.
Let freedom rip.
