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I doubt he would be privy to the cloak and dagger details. But Rumsfeld IS bright--in a malevolent way. So is Cheney, and some others. The evidence of PNAC shows that this cabal had long planned to invade Iraq, Iran and other mideast oil fields. And they are playing it out exactly that way. What was the news a week before "immigration" was the news? Iran, Iran, Iran. What did Scooter Libby tell Judith Miller to "come back to life--and work" FOR? To cover the *IRAN* WMD story!
It is obvious, on the known facts, that they deliberately put a KNOWN LIE into Bush's SOTU speech--re: the "crude" Niger forgeries. Even Colin Powell balked (who told a 100% pack of lies to the UN). It was a KNOWN, PROVABLE lie--that they went to extra trouble to re-insert in the speech, after it had been taken out!
And why were these such easily detectable forgeries--laughably detectable? Why didn't they create GOOD forgeries--or at least get the dates and names right? The forgeries were a joke. And SOMEBODY wanted VERY BADLY for these to be referenced in the speech. Why? They were the very item that got Wilson so incensed. He KNEW the Niger/Iraq connection was a lie; he couldn't understand why they would put such an obvious, PROVABLE lie in the speech.
Also, the gist of the WMD-planting theory of Traitorgate is that they FAILED. They got foiled by somebody. So THAT fits the beliefs of some of the commenters in this thread, that they are just arrogant, thieving bumblers. I think you have to sort out who's arrogant, and to what degree, who's thieving and who has other motives, and who's a bumbler and who isn't a bumbler. It's not a uniform picture. The bumbling by Bush, for instance, creates a context in which some clever operators can commit massive theft, or run out long term schemes of becoming Masters of the Universe.
I think there are malevolent masterminds at work, as well as "Marx Brothers" incompetents--and, to some degree, the former are using the latter for cover. By "masterminds," I don't mean that they can't fail. And their "masterminding" may well be full of self-delusion. But, when you track this thing (Traitorgate) back, you find it going back all the way to 2001, and the Rome meeting of Bushite Neo-Cons, Italian government fascists and notorious Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, where the "crude" Niger forgeries were more than likely cooked up. Why would they cook up POOR forgeries? And why did they need a notorious illicit arms dealer--an Iran/Contra "mastermind"--to create laughably crude forgeries?
You need to try to look at this from the INSIDE--not from the newstream OUTSIDE, nor from the political foreground. What was going on that prompted what appears to me to be a panicky, rushed outing of Plame and the entire Brewster-Jennings counter-proliferation network--a highly risky method of political "punishment," involving many top Bushites and contacts with at least six reporters (journalist witnesses to treason), in one week? An op-ed piece by a dissenting ex-diplomat? Why didn't they just ignore it? It would have slipped into the war profiteering corporate news monopoly lost memory column. Or, if they hated Wilson so much, why didn't they just destroy his credit rating? They were spying on everybody, and surely, as a result, had illicit access to MANY methods of destruction. It seems pretty obvious to me that Plame-BJ was the TARGET, not the collateral damage, and how convenient it must have been to put Rove, notorious for his dirty tricks, out front, in a very believable narrative of political revenge! (There is evidence that Rove and Libby got into a scuffle about this--about Rove ending up holding the bag.)
Anyway, this kind of thinking--trying to think oneself behind the curtain, behind the highly manipulated newsstream--is what led to the WMD-planting theory of Traitorgate; that, and the resonant coincidence of dates with the outing and death of David Kelly, in the same week, and the coincidence of themes (extreme and fearful reactions by two closely allied governments in response to SOMETHING, but are we sure WHAT?) It's a pretty good theory, all in all--and has held up well with new developments. It may not be what happened, or may not be exactly what happened, but it's a good working hypothesis for investigation.
This poll posits a "they." But I think we have to sort out who "they" are, and what the motives behind various methods of powermonger may be. Rumsfeld and the looting of Baghdad is a good example. Was that incompetence? Or quite convenient chaos and destruction of civil society? End result: the construction of huge, permanent US military bases in Iraq--a fortress from which to launch further attacks in the Middle East, while the Iraqis who could interfere with with those goals kill each other off. We're still there, with no end in sight. Is that bumbling?
We're still there--and NOW we're there MINUS an honest, committed US counter-proliferation capability. Is that "Marx Brothers" incompetence? Or is that the work of a mastermind, or masterminds? My pick for chief mastermind of both Traitorgate AND the PNAC agenda is Rumsfeld. Of all of them, he is the one I fear the most. I think he is the smartest, most Nazi-like, and most devious of the lot. I think Cheney is chiefly just one of the looters. (His zillions in Halliburton stock is his chief consideration--and was during Katrina as well. Guess who got the first no-bid contract in New Orleans? Another example of APPARENT bumbling and incompetence.) And guess who's going to be left standing, after Fitzgerald is finished with his grand jury investigations? My guess, Cheney will retire. And Rumsfeld will still be in charge of the most secretive, most Nazified military/intelligence cabal the world has ever seen, with all power drawn into his hands. Getting rid of Plame/Brewster-Jennings, and the "white hat" CIA, was a step along the way. Not a political mistake (in my opinion, and according to this theory). Rather, a long-planned treasonous crime, in conjunction with the creation of the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon, to take control of all US intelligence, and to purge all intelligence and military professionals who thought it was their job to prevent war, not to manufacture it.
Rumsfeld is temporarily curtailed on Iran--more by the rest of the world, than by the near-powerless American people (rendered helpless by Bushite corporate control of the new electronic voting machines). But he is STILL in Iraq--for all the Bushites' loss of political cache back home. In Iraq in full force. Permanently ensconced. Oblivious to, and caring not a whit about, the chaos in Iraqi society--nor about the US cannon fodder he is throwing at that "problem." Poised, waiting, like a jackal; scheming for another manufactured war. And you can't tell me that Traitorgate--the destruction of our counter-proliferation network--was just some bumbling political incident that conveniently, and accidentally, removed our eyes and ears on Iran nukes, and on all illicit and covert weapons movement, and other illicit covert activities in the Middle East (such as the black ops bombings going on in Iran right now), and around the world.
Look deeper, is all I'm saying. And do not be afraid. As Gandhi said, the truth and the good always win in the end. There are a lot of good people in this country, inside of and outside of the establishment. It may not be easy, but we WILL get our country back. We may have a neo-Nazi in the Pentagon, but we are NOT a Nazi-like people, and no one--and I mean no one--can make us into one.
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