They stole it, leaked it, then lied about it.

tonie61 writes "Recently I saw an article which examined the GOP pattern of labeling potential foes “evil” such as “Axis of Evil” whose parent was “Evil Empire”. The author considered that this was an immature act by the GOP aimed at an audience, which they considered to be at the 3rd grade level. It reminded this author of his son’s favorite cartoon, Sponge Bob, in which the good guy, Mermaid Man is always yelling Evil.

This scam of late November 2003, which will has already lost its ranking of being the latest--the GOP stealing a computer file or scrap paper of a Democratic staff member, was as per usual, cunningly evil. This aide, of Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, reminds of the phrase, “every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints.” The GOP was trying to accuse the Democrats of playing politics with the Iraq war. In an objective analysis of this, since the GOP stole an unfinished work product of an underpaid, and very junior, aide, Rove’s boys committed the only crime.

I can’t have “Sympathy for the Devil” Dubya, while so many innocent lives are being wasted! The crime of theft, in this escapade that became public on November 6th, 2003, has been forgotten. The entire incident has as Rove noticed that this particular skirmish with the red staters’ apathy wasn’t playing out at all, negatively or positively, for the GOP.

Rove knows all about lazy people, look at Dubya. Sometimes they are just too zoned-out for perfectly adequate scams to gain any momentum.

The GOP, back in November was pretending to be incensed by this document. It was a memo that stated an obvious concern for securing information from a stonewalling GOP. The “Liar, liar pants on fire” GOP was yammering about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Was that memo any more damning than Rummy’s recent “The meaning of Slog” memo?

I have two associates who work in the White House. There are two cafeterias there. One of my chums, a working drone as I am, goes to a cheaply decorated, but vastly over-priced eating area—-really just vending machines, called the “Bee Hive”. The other person, an arrogant yuppie, eats at a snazzy, moderate priced establishment for Senior Executives only, the “Queen Bee”.

I know for a certain fact that each of those places has hidden bugs. Another of my buddies uses voice translation hybrid software to put these illegally bugged conversations into databases.

In both places slogans are placed. One week it will be “Mission Accomplished”, another it will be “Huge Progress in the Iraq Occupation”, another it will be “Victory in Afghanistan”. Last year a few of them were “Hussein instead of bin laden” and “Hussein’s WMD are an imminent threat”.

The practiced GOP operatives experiment with these signs, and use brainwashing techniques or the unwitting Government drones. When they have, for example, “Mission Accomplished” up, they placed subliminal messages into the music playing for the patrons. As some western ballad about somebody doing someone wrong and the whistling train hummed a sad song, in the background noise, the phrase “Dubya is good” was audible, but just barely so.

The software isn’t bug free but my buddy provides the results to guess whom? Karl Rove sees the reports and uses this anecdotal data to guide his cunning capers. Yes, the willing drones of the Queen Bee in the “Bee Hive”, the people who fit the profile of the red stater as well as can be hoped for, believe big brother mini-me by a 90% ratio. The college educated Senior Executives see through the tissue of lies, by a 90% ratio, but keep quiet because maintaining the status quo suits their purposes.

This will result in the US never getting the “Mission Accomplished” sign in Dubya’s “everlasting war against terrorism”. Forget the fact that Dubya has backed off of claiming he won the Iraq war, as the overall anti-terrorism policy is abysmally failing Dubya.

Rove remembered how in the 1960s that scantily clad girls draping themselves onto Mustangs sold cars. Worse, at movie theatres and TV sets “Drink Coke” messages were rampant, until the government realized that these campaigns were unethical.

I remember back in the 2000 campaign, Rove had the ad with Bush mumbling about something and in the background was a sign that should have said, “Democrats are bureaucrats.” Well, 43’s big, fat, empty head blocked out parts of the sign so that only the words, “Democrats are rats.” could be seen. You’d think that Rove would be embarrassed by the clumsiness of that. You’d be wrong because that ad was clearly aimed at a drooling dolt and that is what Rove considers his bread and butter, red staters to be.

This politicization of the Iraq war started during the 2002 mid-term election. No ethical president, and that includes JFK and Dubya’s Poppy, would ever start a war during an election period. Dubya dances to Rove’s orders, and Rove has never seen an ethical barrier that he wouldn’t exploit. Two articles, “Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop” of May 7, 2003 by James C. Moore of the Los Angeles Times and “Bush's Political Future Hinges on Quick War” by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post Staff of March 15, 2003, illustrate this hypocritical, Herr big brother 43 tactic.

Dubya attacked Max Cleland, as well as other Democrats, during the 2002 mid-term election. Even John McCain, who Herr Rove, smeared in the Republican primaries, couldn’t stomach what Dubya did to Cleland. Rove follows the Atwater, “winner takes all, don’t take any captives” GOP negative campaigning to the extreme philosophy. That also includes, dish it out and never take it.

Now, they the nerve to complain about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Every intelligence agency within the US, including the CIA, told Dubya’s team the truth about Iraq. That is why Dubya, through his PNAC thug, Cheney’s advice, doctored up intelligence. Cheney depended on an operative, Douglas J. Feith, to phony up reality.

Back in the period of the run-up to 43 pushing us into Iraq war part 2 there were articles in the progressive media such as, “The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA” by Robert Dreyfuss of December 16, 2002. A quote follows, “Even as it prepares for war against Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq, according to former CIA officials. Key officials of the Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Feith, collects the information from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful tidbits to make the case for preemptive war. These morsels sometimes go directly to the president.”

Recently, Dana Priest of the Washington Post’s article, “Politicized Memo Incites Row”, of November 6, 2003, had this hook, “A barely contained partisan squabble over assessing blame for the apparent failure to find chemical and biological weapons in Iraq broke into the open yesterday when Republican senators said they had a memorandum indicating their Democratic colleagues were preparing a campaign to disparage a Senate committee report on the quality of prewar intelligence before it is even completed.”

Rockefeller, in a released statement, said the memo "was likely taken from a waste basket or through unauthorized computer access." "Exploring or asserting the rights of the minority under the intelligence committee rules in no way amounts to politicizing intelligence," he said. "The American people deserve a full accounting of why we sent our sons and daughters into war."

The article concludes, “The committee has combed through thousands of pages of documents and interviewed more than one hundred intelligence analysts, operatives and scientists. It is preparing a report that is said to be harshly critical of the CIA and other intelligence agencies for their lack of substantive information and analysis on Iraq.”

That is a namby-pamby lie. The Democrats can’t speak truthfully, or the GOP will not even allow them to attend meetings. The truth is this. Remember the just mentioned Douglas J. Feith? He had another role in the Iraq war, as did other PNAC thugs, such as Richard Perle.

Did you ever hear of Richard Perle? He is renowned as a war profiteer, and is making out like a bandit in this Iraq debacle.

In an article of November 6, 2003, “Diplomacy: Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War”, this quote mentions Feith again, “As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections. The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy and planning, were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved.”

The article continues, “The overtures, after a decade of evasions and deceptions by Iraq, were ultimately rebuffed. But the messages raised enough interest that in early March, Richard N. Perle, an influential adviser to top Pentagon officials, met in London with the Lebanese-American businessman, Imad Hage. According to both men, Mr. Hage laid out the Iraqis' position to Mr. Perle, and he pressed the Iraqi request for a direct meeting with Mr. Perle or another representative of the United States.”

Iraq offered free UN access to view the bogus WMD and also would give the US anything they asked for just to end the war before it started.

Iraq offered to hand over Abdul Rahman Yasin, who has been indicted in United States in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mr. Yasin fled to Iraq after the bombing, and the United States put up a $25 million reward for his capture.

It goes like this. They lie, they plant evidence against their enemies, and they hit their enemies, be they Iraq or Democrats in Congress, with attacks of “Shock and Awe”. They never try for the surgical strike when they can intimidate their present enemy and future adversaries cower.

It comes down to the dumb don’t need to be treated with finesse. You know who you are. You FOX viewing, never reading a newspaper, disinterested, red stater, become completely involved or don‘t vote. You can’t be in it halfway. Dubya’s, “you are either for us or against us“, can be modified to, “if you are in for a penny, you are in it all the way“.

The alert are not going to be swayed by just another GOP lie, by another of the never-ending list of connected GOP thugs. The rest of the GOP group, follow the orders of Rove, and who could have a bigger “credibility gap” than the political advisor to a lazy frat boy whose Poppy’s US Supreme Court gave the dunce the 2000 election?

Why would anyone believe a word that Dubya, the man who disowned the "Mission Accomplished" sign, as well as the “16 words”, before his own crowd of advisors explained to him that even the dimmest of dim-bulbs couldn’t believe his transparent lies.

The red staters are condescended to and are told what to believe. They want it easy so they’ll sheepishly go along with any Dubya drawled inane remark, as long as he remains staunchly for NRA, NASCAR, bible-thumping, racist, warmongering policies.

How can they lie so boldly! They realize the red staters are their stooges and the rest of the world--well the GOP might as well yell “expletive deleted” at them. Anyone who is actively concerned for their own self-interest, won’t vote for the GOP and their policies which benefit only the “Rangers” and “Pioneers”.

“The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."

No one other than Adolph Hitler said that phrase. 43's team understands it well! For sheer audacity, what about the boob, who dared dress up in a Top Gun outfit for an unnecessary jet flight to a US aircraft carrier on May 1 2003 to declare victory over Iraq? The USS Abraham Lincoln emblazoned the sign "Mission Accomplished". As events have sadly developed the sign should have been "Mission Failure".

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