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You have got to be kidding!…

Really, this is why every idea that the WH sends up, and every nominee will have to be filibustered to death. Anyone they send will be a partisan hack, because otherwise the WH wouldn’t approve them.

While I would normally agree with O_B_F on the SF-312, the point in question is independently in the public domain from Novak, the Waxman hearing in March, by W himself in trying to find out whodunnit, and via the Libby trial. The government has already declassified it. Of course, the government has also been re-classifying its bad news as well, so this is more of that process. In balance, though, Val should publish. France would love it.

Ever the cryptic, if slightly confused kitty.

I remain, as always, the MP you’ve come to know and …

posting from the V.V.A.W. Conference. Vietnam Veterans Against the War. totally awesome group of folks here. about 130 people. some real legends. hilarious stories. “fun” at gop 1972 convention in miami. w/o them instead of 58,200+ names on the vietnam memorial wall there would be 120,000.

one of the guys here is jan barry. founding father (there were 6) of vvaw and author of well known book on nam, “and a hard rain fell.”

i was born in ’58. too young for the s.e. asia war games. one in country vet told me yesterday, “congratulations.” ie, for missing all the “thrills and giggles.”
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marc page, great idea. my thoughts exactly. and my first choice is joe wilson. quick paperback. out soon. title: they won’t let my wife talk. or, if my wife could talk. photo on cover: joe and val, testifying before congress setting. hands upraised ie, about to take the oath to tell the truth under penalty, etc. and val has duct tape on her mouth.

my wife says my self appointed mission in life is to come up with ideas that ….create a lot of work for other people.
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and joe and val if you’re reading this: i honor you and salute you. one day we’ll meet. and this ocs, airborne ranger will look ya in the eye and say thank you. (ray mcgovern can vouch for me; i “his abn. rngr. in st. louis county, mizzourah.” as thomas paine said, “it is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government.”

as rangers in nam would say, “charlie mike.” or, “continue the mission.” (title of a novel by a army lt. col. who was in nam as a ranger and later bn. cdr. of the airborne school at benning.

No, I meant I didn’t see you ‘up there’ on this ‘thread’.

But anyway, perhaps a little patience is in order. The next President can install Mr. Wilson as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Miss Plame as head of the C.I.A., if only for the entertainment value in watching Neo-Con skulls explode.

I’m reading my local paper this morning and the front page was a picture of a mother with her head resting on the top on her son’s casket, sobbing, as her husband was trying to console her. Her son – the soldier, had been killed in Afghanistan in late July. He was 22. That picture puts it all in perspective for me – this soldier is the ultimate casualty of a PNAC, Neo-Con vision of the Middle East and their own personal bank account. It is greed at it’s highest and worst.

Reading Larry’s post yesterday, about Valerie and the lengths that this administration have gone to, to basically deny that she didn’t exist nor do anything for her country prior to 2002, well, the rest of us are that mother laying with our heads down, sobbing, as we see our Constitution being shredded and our lives as we know them, ultimately affected by a PNAC Neo-Con’s vision.

Is there no end to this Neo-Con vision that has taken over our country? People seem to think that with a new Prez in 2009, that it will all stop – well, I for one, don’t believe it will stop.

Forget the Democrats doing anything now or later – they couldn’t find their way out of a dark cave with a flashlight, a GPS unit and a tour guide.

The Republicans are so corrupt and can do nothing either. Yet the power of Rove and all those others behind the scenes, just keeps clicking along, like they know something that everyone else doesn’t. Is that an attack where they can somehow lay the blame on the Democrats rather than OBL or Al Quaeda? That’s what’s so troubling – if attacks were a true and imminent threat on this country, most leaders wouldn’t be concerned about what political party someone belongs to. Me thinks this fearmongering by the Bush Administration is controlled.

This supposed Deep Throat that is lurking around on the internet, get off your ass and do something. We are all tired of the games this administration has played. We don’t need more games from you. If you’re for real that is…..

Lastly, if you have never seen the movie “The Inside Man” with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Christopher Plummer, you should watch it or watch it again – there is one, very subtle, telling scene in the whole movie – its where D. Washingtons character is sitting across from Christopher Plummer in Plummers office. Notice all the photos on the credenza behind Plummer – at first glance you probably don’t pay attention – but if you look closely, they seem to resemble photos of George and Barbara Bush and other important people. I left the movie thinking that somehow Spike Lee was insinuating that Plummers character was based on Prescott Bush, whom, we all have heard and read that he did business with the Nazi’s after WWII.

So this thing with Iraq, Repubs, Dems, Roves, Cheneys, Bush’s et al, is more to do with the fact that “The White Boy Network Establishment” is hanging on by a mere thread and people like Valerie Wilson, her team, the Pat Tillman’s came across something that threatened the existence of “The Establishment.”

Its time for that thread to be pulled.

Sorry, mk, didn’t see you there. But “signs point to yes.”

They out a covert CIA operative and cover-up the circumstances surrounding the death of a patriotic U.S. citizen killed while serving over in Afghanistan.

Scooter Libby lies and obstructs justice, shielding other Republican officials in the White House complicit in the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson.

In the case of the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, one of the critical figures is Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the officer who issued the posthumous Silver Star citation, a citation that falsely claimed that Pat Tillman was killed by “enemy fire.”

This is the sequence:

McChrystal received a White House-crafted Silver Star citation and was ordered to issue it posthumously to Cpl. Pat Tillman, even though the “enemy fire” claim was false. He followed orders.

Per McChrystal’s later testimony before investigators, he knew the “enemy fire” claim was false because he’d received information days before contradicting this citation claim, probably information that Army doctors, following their examination of Tillman’s body, had called for a criminal investigation into his death, primarily because the three closely-spaced bullet holes in his forehead indicated to them that the shots had been fired from close range.

McChrystal couldn’t say no to a direct order from the White House that he issue the citation, but afterward he could warn his higher-ups at the Pentagon and the White House that they shouldn’t claim Tillman was killed by “enemy fire” in any of their public speeches.

You see, McChrystal could hardly have crafted and issued a Silver Star citation stating something that he knew to be false, which indicates that he must have been ordered by higher-ups to issue the citation…as written.

Because of the political nature of the “spun” citation, it must have originated in the White House, either in Rove’s or Cheney’s political offices.

McChrystal is commander of the covert Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC) which is involved in worldwide “black ops” activities. Thus, he knows things about the Bush crime family that few people do, probably including extraordinary rendition and the torture of suspects in secret “black ops” prisons around the world.

In his testimony, McChrystal tried hard not to implicate anyone higher-up the chain of command, at the Pentagon or even in the White House.

For his obfuscation, McChrystal’s censure, as recommended by the acting inspector general for the Pentagon, was overturned by top Army brass (and the White House). Thus, McChrystal keeps his position as head of the JSOC, effectively silencing him.

Hopefully, Congress will subpoena McChrystal and have him testify in open session while under oath, specifically asking him who sent him the Silver Star citation.

And if he hides behind the wall of executive privilege, then everyone will know that the Bush administration is responsible for the initial and ongoing cover-up (and obstruction of justice) into the circumstances surrounding the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman over in Afghanistan.