An Affair To Remember (Joe Wilson-Plame and Sheehan: Tools In A Smaller Plot?)

He came back and told everyone no sale took place and walked away. I had a little trouble with one of his comments in there about what the people were wearing and about them walking across John F. Kennedy bridge. That seemed so metro-sexual and not really part of what he was supposed to be talking about. It made me think he was a leftist. But there was much more that made me think leftist as well. He talked about the need for rigorously ensuring that Saddam wasn't pursuing his weapons program again. He also said it was important that the threat of invasion was there to make him toe the line. His problem was that we actually backed our words with deeds. Leftist.

He said in his commentary that it was important that we didn't selectively use intelligence to justify the war. His real problem is that he is selectively using his own report as the baseline for determining that there was no uranium sold to Iraq. He is forgetting something very important; his report wasn't the only one that they looked at. We may never see the reports they looked at for that matter. He is forgetting that just because he came up empty handed doesn't mean there was nothing going on. It only means he didn't find what they were looking for. However none of that matters now that he has done what he wanted to do. I see something else behind all of this though.

Let's not forget to notice that Libby's indictment says nothing at all about outing a secret agent, but rather it is about Libby not being clear on a few things. If we look at the kind of job Libby holds we'll see a person that handles phone call after phone call. There is a question as to whether he was at the head of a series of phone calls or at the end. We'll see when the dust settles. That is what court is all about. I suspect that he will get off Scot-free because they were asking him questions about phone conversations held two years before. Two years ago when your power company called you was it before or after the insurance company? If Libby did lie then he deserves to get into serious trouble. After reading the indictments I didn't see anywhere in which Libby tried to redefine words in our language like Clinton did.

We're talking about a conservative here so he is going to have to be handled as we've all learned a conservative has to be handled. If he lied he's in trouble. Nobody expects liberals to tell the truth and we've learned over the years their version of truth matches the Communist version of the truth: "What ever moves the cause forward is the truth." It didn't take long before Fitzgerald asked if he could go beyond the original intent of the investigation because it is very difficult to prove the original allegations.

What we're seeing here is typical for the party that isn't in power though. The losing party acts like…well…losers. Bush should have told Wilson where he could put his allegations and moved on. This all came about because Joe Wilson-Plame thinks the world revolves around him. I'm still wondering how Novak stayed out of trouble. He's the one who supposedly outed Plame in the first place. Never mind the fact that she was polishing a chair in DC and not in the field. That may be why Fitzgerald had to move on to other things so quickly.

But I see something else here. This administration has been smeared with a scandal that will still be in full swing during the next set of elections. As I've said before I doubt there is anything to these allegations. But the smear is the point. It is a tactic. One might be likely to think that I'm blaming the Democrats in general. I'm not. Last week Sheehan railed against Hillary the warmonger. She is now a political tool that makes Hillary look conservative. Wilson may have smeared this administration with a scandal but I suspect that it will be the radical Dean arm of the Democratic Party that ends up with egg on their faces.

Why do I think that's the case? Because of the silence on the part of the Clintons. It could be argued that they don't want to remind everyone of how much trouble they had. During the last election I suspected Bill Clinton when he began backing Kerry. I knew he was aware of an Achilles heel. It turns out he was aware of the then future swift boat mess and Kerry's discharge problem with the military. I wonder what they know now. As scary as they are to watch, it sure is fun to watch them.

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