Author: Eternal Hope

This board will serve as my wall of shame, or s–tlist of people who pass off GOP propaganda as either research or news. This post will be a whole directory of journalists, politicians, academics, prominent blogs, and other...

[From the diaries by susanhu.]

Charles Krauthammer, for the second week in a row, has turned his dripping venom against another Republican. This time, he has turned his fangs against former Bush I National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

Krauthammer knows very well that the GOP is in tatters from the recent run of bad news. So, he is now on a self-righteous crusade to restore order by whipping reluctant Republicans back in line with the same kind of venom that right-wingers so often use on Democrats. However, Krauthammer is not without his venom towards the left. First, he takes a cheap shot towards Cindy Sheehan:

Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the antiwar movement — most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists that we are in Iraq for reasons of theft, oppression and empire — a new spokesman is needed. If I were in the opposition camp, I would want a deeply patriotic, highly intelligent, distinguished establishment figure. I would want Brent Scowcroft. … Continued below:

Joe Wilson has broken his silence on Plamegate to some extent to write about the way their lives were changed by Rove and Libby’s treason and the outing of his wife Valerie.

The right-wingers talk all the time about how they are so pro-family. The Fundamentalists label bills as either pro-family or anti-family. But what the Bush administration did was blatantly anti-family. Therefore, when the right-wingers talk about family values, they are simply not credible, unless they acknowledge that what Rove and Libby did was wrong.

I don’t know that he intended it to be that way, but Juan Cole’s post today drops a bombshell that proves fraud in Iraq beyond a reasonable doubt. His posts, plus other reports on vote suppression point to a systematic attempt by the Iraqi government to stuff ballot boxes and then adjust the totals when people noticed the high yes vote.

The province in question was Ninevah, a heavily Sunni province. Initially, Cole reported that Ninevah went 75% yes on October 17th. I questioned the result at the time, wondering why an ethnic group so suspicious of the US suddenly turned around and voted yes. Now, Cole’s latest figures show a 55% no vote. A two-thirds no vote would have sunk the Constitution.

The revelation of the fact that Bush knew about Rove’s involvement in Plamegate means that this is no longer just about Rove and Libby. This is about how George Bush covered up Karl Rove’s involvement in leaking the name of Valerie Plame to the media, which may have caused the loss of life of a CIA agent.

Not only does the Espionage Act directly cover the treason of Rove and Libby, it covers Bush’s concealment of Rove’s action by failing to report his knowledge of the affair to Patrick Fitzgerald.

The Washington Times editor Wes Purden guffaws this morning about how incomprehansible to the average person this is and how Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame were living a glamourous lifestyle. But the joke is on him, since he focused on the Espionage Act and I looked it up.