"Mussolini once said Italians are ungovernable. Thank goodness somebody is."lol
* parry:
"Those two facts – Plame’s work for the CIA and her minor role in Wilson’s Niger trip (which was approved and arranged at higher levels of the CIA) – were transformed into key attack points against Wilson."this still doesnt make any sense to me. it's transparently bollox. parry gets close, but still doesn't quite get it. read the rest tho
why do you think Plame was outed?
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EmptyWheel points out that the same Corn/Isikoff book that caused the Armitage furor also reports Plame headed the very taskforce assigned to verify evidence of Iraq wmds; i.e., the group that cast doubt on Curveball's claims and other stories Cheney et al. were pressuring for confirmation on.
What better reason for outing her, as a shot across the bow to others who refuted BushCo's wmd yarns, just as Wilson said? -- art is bread
art is bread - thanks for that. it's interesting that they waited till 3 months after the invasion to blow up the JTFI.
oldschool - whatever the reason, i think you are correct that cheney relished it. bastard.
YOU GO OLDSCHOOL! i totally love your post above. it rings so true, very easy to imagine that, or the damn near like.
Well I've always said that discrediting Joe Wilson was the nice, official reason, but the REAL reason was to put Plame out of commission, along with her whole team, so there would be no credible opposition to their yellowcake forgeries.
They wanted anyone who could successfully refute their forgeries,out of the CIA. They succeeded. Mission Accompolished. Now they can drag out all that unused Niger Embassy stationary and crank out another yellowcake caper.
Clia Toris said
"just like his grandfather", meaning Prescott Bush, former Republican Senator from CT and cozy with Nazis.
Thank heaven, Berlusconi is gone. I was getting worried about the oldest republic in the western world.
The comments in the Busholini thread from Italians commenting on Mussolini validate what I said to Don about the Italian attitude towards gov't.
Alessandro Mussolini says she loves her grandfather.
My grandfather told me the story of the Sicilian Veseprs, as told to him by his grandmother. Different genetic line, obviously.
And, how fun to read Mario Puzo, Don. you can ask him some Mafia questions, too. I'll bet there was a Mafiosa message in the hanging Mussolini upside down, as in "overturned". They're kind of poetic that way.
It's a kind of combining of the concept that actions speak louder than words and a picutre is worth a thousand words.
That old James Mason film, With a Flower In His Mouth, is a perfect example of the Sicilian spirit. Franco Nero is hunbkier than hell in this, too.
Is Clia Toris going to be on our map?
You don't really believe Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby and Addington, et al. think like you do; that is, they have goals or motives upon which they act. Tell me you don't. Their suggestions they think that way are lies, just like everything else which comes out of their mouths when their lips move.
These are men who greet each new day with the thought, "what a glorious day to kill. Let's fill some graves." It's who they are, what they do, all they know. They are not capable of moon-is-cheese thinking.
They are greasy worms, and greasy worms eat and excrete dirt. Plame was outed because it was a simple way to cause great destruction with a few words, kill people and excrete dirt. There was no motive.
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