The right wing beat the left wing at invading the core institutions...

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...of this country is the conclusion of this piece by the leading native American newspaper in the U.S. Who should understand this better than our Indian brothers.

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Rove violation only one flame in conflagration
Posted: July 21, 2005
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today


If Deep Throat had ultimate justice (and perhaps some retribution) in mind when he led the trail of Watergate to Nixon, the intent of Karl Rove, the alleged Shallow Lips of Plamegate, lacks any such lofty value. Plamegate refers to the growing scandal of a White House office likely betraying an undercover CIA agent in order to get at a ''political enemy.''

The intent for Rove was to destroy the credibility of the agent's husband, a career diplomat who correctly questioned a significant intelligence claim - Saddam's alleged purchase of uranium from Niger - used to justify the hyped-up war against Iraq. The senior U.S. diplomat was Joseph Wilson, who had been assigned by the U.S. government to get the facts and whose measured assessment contradicted the rush to judgment of a Bush government already committed to a war of invasion and occupation. His wife's name, Valerie Plame, was first revealed by acerbic pundit Robert Novak. The nimble Rove, who has launched and sidestepped many a dirty deed in his 20-plus years of building the difficult credibility of his career candidate, George W. Bush, seems a cornered man this time. Rubbish, once delicious, now gathers around him as he is ''outed'' daily in the national news for his role in the campaign to discredit Wilson.

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Which points to the deepest consequence of the Rove debacle, featuring as it does a prime example of the harsh, valueless approach now common to political strategy and practice. One or another of the radical fringes of U.S. politics was bound to break through and invade the core institutions of the country. The right beat the left in that battle, and its true-believer minions have infected the core of American political institutions. Rove is a general to those happy-go-lucky political troops, but the real troops are in Iraq, dying.

Only now, boots deep in mud and gore, is the American public waking up to the long-term, seemingly never-ending, war policy it voted in and apparently signed up for. The Rove spy-outing affair, Plamegate, is only one symptom eliciting attention. Curing the disease will prove substantially more difficult.

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. That's what the right wing is all about, control and security. The only ..

True and noble function for a Liberal is to police these suspicious power mungers and their neurosis. Jefferson vs Hamilton, Jefferson was elected, Hamilton, LIKE SHRUBS DAD STAYED CONNECTED, AND JUST WOULDN'T GO AWAY.

[EVDebs]

2. Nobody left to blame....but themselves, bwha-ahahahahahahahahah

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3. Yes, good comparison....

...and Hamilton was all about making lots of money for himself if memory serves.

[stepnw1f]

4. LOL... The Left Never Even Tried

The Left created the "core institutions" and the right wants to steal or destroy it, like it does everything else. What a bunch of dellusional, maybe paranoid fools... or is that just more shit for an excuse to be the dictator?