Reply #12: Well, You've Done A Brilliant Job Here [View All]

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in putting together a much clearer picture and dropping even more breadcrumbs on the path.

In reading about Rove I was struck by a couple of thoughts. I've read the description of his seeing **sh for the first time before and each time it seemed like he was watching his "dream girl", stepping off the train. From that time he has worshiped adoringly at jr.'s feet. It could also be that that vision was everything, pale, pudgy, balding KKK would never be, he would also never be the heir presumptive of a dynasty, so he became jr.'s James Baker (consigliere), becoming the chancellor to the "king". But the Cheney factor is something I wasn't as clear on and it is forceful in terms of Rove's psyche. Is Cheney the father, he never really had, the parent the rumored bastard son has been seeking? And to whom does he owe his greatest allegiance, the love of his life or his adoptive father? In many ways it's a classic story. The beggar at the table rising up to rule the land, and then crashing to earth when all his evil deeds are exposed for what they are.

As for Powell, never was a big fan of his, feeling there was more hype than substance to the man. And his trip to the UN just confirmed for me who I thought he was and wasn't. He was the "good soldier" and ate the lie, spreading it throughout the land, and in doing so, he too has bloodied his hands. Those soldiers who he helped send into a faked and unplanned, mismanaged war should lay heavy on his conscience. I also wonder about the "apple never falls far from the tree" theory, for his son Michael was a disgrace and cut from the same cloth as the neo-cons, those who betray us for money and position.