Something Wicked This Way Comes

[No Exit]

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Anthony Wade


http://www.opednews.com

October 15, 2005

Beware America, there is something brewing on the horizon. The storm clouds are gathering. For anyone who has closely followed this administration and the way that they try to cow the masses to avoid bad publicity, the upcoming weeks are fraught with danger. As the Plamegate case starts to wind up, rest assured the storm of grand distraction is heading straight for us.

For the unaware, those who rely on mainstream/corporate media for their “news”, Plamegate is a two year investigation into the leaking of a covert CIA operative’s identity to the press. The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been doggedly trying to unravel so much corruption that all the talking heads can do is wonder who is going to be indicted. The fact remains though that the indictments have to be coming within the next two weeks. The term for the special prosecutor expires at the end of this month and we can be sure that Bush will not renew this investigation.

The story goes like this. In the run-up to the Iraq War the Bush administration was trying desperately to scare the nation about the WMD capability of Iraq. We heard tales of nefarious chemical weapons, terrifying biological weapons and the potential for Iraq to possess nuclear weapons. It is the nuclear potential that saw the development of Plamegate. There was a report that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from the Niger and at the behest of the Vice President’s office, Joseph Wilson was sent to investigate. He came back and informed the government that the story was completely untrue and as it turned out, the documents involved were crude forgeries. Despite the truth, the president bravely marched on and stated the Niger story as fact in his next state of the union address. Eventually, Wilson wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times refuting the White House claims. Instead of owning up to their “error”, the Bush attack machine went into overdrive and the identity of Wilson’s wife as an undercover CIA operative was anonymously leaked to the press.

If that does not sound like a big deal, try and remember that it is treasonous and a felony. Considering this was the party that rammed the “rule of law” down our throats with the partisan Clinton impeachment, it would seem quite germane. Considering Bush himself promised to restore integrity to the White House, the implications are extremely significant. What is lurking beneath the surface however is far more potentially damaging to this entire administration. The elephant in the room that people are not talking about is why there were forged documents to begin with and the overall publicity campaign waged by the administration to push us into war. With the benefit of hindsight and the lack of any WMD, it becomes quite clear that the reason we were sold this war on were not accurate. When you factor in the Downing Street Memos it becomes clearer still that those “inaccuracies” were known in advance and that the administration willfully and purposefully lied this country into war. When you then factor in that one reporter, Judy Miller, was willing to rot in jail for 85 days for a story she never even wrote, the corruption trail ends up at the top of the food chain.

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Bigtime "terra" stories will be fillin' our cable news stations, folks! Or maybe they'll arrest Al Quaeda's "Number 3 man" again.

[Patchuli]

1. Time to call for Accountability

I want to see this moral superiority which the Right touts itself as having after making a mess of pretty much everything in government since 2000 (and beginning in 1994!)

If this Administration cannot prove it did not lie, it should be canned, all the way up and down.

[napi21]

2. Well, I don't know who Anthony Wade is, but I found one BIG mistake

In the second paragraph!

"The term for the special prosecutor expires at the end of this month and we can be sure that Bush will not renew this investigation."

That's WRONG! The Grand Jury term expires on Oct. 28th, but can be extended! The special prosecutor doesn't have a term! He has an assignment, and it's done when he says it's done!

Finding errors like that early in the article makes me distrust the rest.