Global Eye: Flop Sweat

[salib]

From Moscow Times: http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/10/21/120.html

Having railed at the wanton criminality of the Bush faction for so long, this column naturally partakes of the general glee arising from the looming possibility of genuine, grade-A grand jury indictments for some of the gang's top thugs.

Of course, we all know that the fix is in: If anyone in the White House is actually indicted and convicted for the high crime of exposing the identity of an undercover agent -- in wartime, no less -- they will certainly be pardoned when George W. Bush finally limps away from the steaming, stinking, blood-soaked ruin of his presidency. Nobody will do any hard time; in the end, the whole sick crew will simply pass through the golden revolving door into the lifetime gravy train of corporate grease and right-wing lecture-circuit glory.

Still, it is heartening to see the fever-sweat of fear popping out on the brows of these swaggering world-shakers, these third-rate goons and half-wit cranks posing as great statesmen, if only for a little while. Fear has always been their weapon of choice: They've used it to foment aggressive war, to crush political opposition, to manipulate the electorate and to mask their own incompetence, corruption and greed. Now they're getting a taste of it themselves -- and they can't take it.

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I love the way they do not pull any punches in describing the "steaming, stinking, blood-soaked ruin" of Bush's legacy.

[Demobrat]

1. Great article

This is the really important part:

There is no "exit strategy" because Bush has never intended to leave. The installation of a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq has been the war conspirators' loudly proclaimed goal for many years, long before Bush was shoehorned into power -- as we have noted here incessantly since 2002, citing chapter and verse from their own publications.

This is why they lied their way into war, this is why they outed a CIA agent whose husband exposed one of their lies: to pursue their dream of "global dominance," of endless war profiteering and oil baksheesh. The prosecutor might give them a pinch, but the damage is already done: The dead will stay dead, the maimed will stay maimed, the tortured will never escape their nightmares. And the killing, the wounding and torment will go on."

If this case does nothing else but open the public's eyes to what really happened - what we are really doing there - maybe they really will be forced to get out and leave their stolen oil fields and half built bases behind.

We can only hope.

[DemoTex]

2. Quintessential Chris Floyd ..

But this schadenfruede, however tasty and effervescent, is no substitute for the strong meat of justice.

[WhiteTara]

3. I find myself holding my breath, waiting for Fitzmas

praying it will really be the gutting of the beast and afraid that he too will be devoured.