History is a strange thing. The present is frustrating in its slowness to see the wrongs of the world paid for with justice. History has shown us that justice takes time, but in a civilized world, it usually makes itself known eventually.
I believe that the scales of justice may be tipping right now in Washington. I think the administration's lies have finally caught up with them. Rove's leaking the name of a covert CIA agent might have been the card that brings down the house of cards that made up the war in Iraq. After all, it was Joesph Wilson's op-ed disputing the administration's claim that Iraq had acquired enriched uranium from Niger that started this whole thing. It's the WMD's, Stupid!
The foundation of this investigation rests in the administration's faulty case for war in Iraq. The Bushies were going to war and if you tried to stop them, well, they were going to discredit you by any means necessary.
This from Frank Rich in The NY Times:
"Let me reiterate: This case is not about Joseph Wilson. He is, in Alfred Hitchcock's parlance, a MacGuffin, which, to quote the Oxford English Dictionary, is "a particular event, object, factor, etc., initially presented as being of great significance to the story, but often having little actual importance for the plot as it develops." Mr. Wilson, his mission to Niger to check out Saddam's supposed attempts to secure uranium that might be used in nuclear weapons and even his wife's outing have as much to do with the real story here as Janet Leigh's theft of office cash has to do with the mayhem that ensues at the Bates Motel in "Psycho.""This case is about Iraq, not Niger. The real victims are the American people, not the Wilsons. The real culprit - the big enchilada, to borrow a 1973 John Ehrlichman phrase from the Nixon tapes - is not Mr. Rove but the gang that sent American sons and daughters to war on trumped-up grounds and in so doing diverted finite resources, human and otherwise, from fighting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. That's why the stakes are so high: this scandal is about the unmasking of an ill-conceived war, not the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative who posed for Vanity Fair.
"So put aside Mr. Wilson's February 2002 trip to Africa. The plot that matters starts a month later, in March, and its omniscient author is Dick Cheney. It was Mr. Cheney (on CNN) who planted the idea that Saddam was 'actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time.' The vice president went on to repeat this charge in May on "Meet the Press," in three speeches in August and on "Meet the Press" yet again in September. Along the way the frightening word "uranium" was thrown into the mix."
Now, Rich also thinks that, well, I am too exicted to say it, I'll let him tell you
"Seasoned audiences of presidential scandal know that there's only one certainty ahead: the timing of a Karl Rove resignation. As always in this genre, the knight takes the fall at exactly that moment when it's essential to protect the king.
Could it be?
Posted by Paul Hina at July 17, 2005 08:50 AM