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All the Republican Candidates Except Ron Paul Either Dodged or Lied About Valerie Plame Scandal

by James Buchanan

No less than George Bush’s father, a former CIA chief, stated that exposing the identity of a CIA agent was the most “insidious” form of treason. Too bad no one in Junior’s administration takes those words seriously. In fact, relatively few people in the Republican Party are stepping up to the plate and denouncing the treason that took place when COVERT agent Valerie Plame’s identity was exposed thanks to a whisper campaign by top officials in the Bush administration.

There was not just one person responsible for exposing Valerie Plame’s identity as some GOP candidates claim. Both Dick Cheney and Karl Rove fed Valerie Plame’s name to the media. They deserve to be put on trial for treason even more than the mindless reporters who published her name. These reporters definitely should go on trial for leaking classified information along with their editors. What the hell were they thinking? Would these folks publish the plans for an A-bomb if that were leaked too?? Some things require common sense. Perhaps a few convictions of reporters AND editors would be a wake up call to the media not to leak classified information.

Valerie Plame was doing covert work at the CIA at least until Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby dug up her name, passed it around and published it. She was the head of a covert company set up to do covert work employing covert agents operating in foreign lands. Despite all this, some neocon talk show hacks are still trying to claim that she had nothing to do with classified work.

This lie was repeated whole-heartedly by various Republican presidential candidates. Only Ron Paul broke through the dishonesty pointing out that Scooter Libby had played a key role in lying the United States into the Iraq War and casting a little cloud of doubt over Mr. Libby’s head, which is currently occupying a prison cell for the crime of perjury.

One of the many lies passed around is that “she boasted about her CIA job at cocktail parties.” If there were any truth to that “Karl Rove” rumor, Ms. Plame would have been subject to discipline within the CIA for talking too much. Some neocon lawyers have jumped into the mix trying to nitpick the definition of “covert.” The one fig leaf that various portly neocons are trying to hide behind is that to be convicted it must be proven that the offending individual knew that Ms. Plame was covert.

Well, that was the whole point of outing her wasn’t it? Valerie Plame’s husband Joe Wilson embarrassed the Bush administration when he exposed the fact that Iraq was not seeking uranium from Niger, contrary to what Bush said in his State of the Union speech. The neocons wanted to punish Wilson so they went after his wife, exposing her identity as a CIA agent and ruining her career. If Valerie Plame worked at Bank of America, would the neocons have told Robert Novak about her? Of course, not. (more…)

by James Buchanan

After the Senate (and House) were relentlessly badgered by patriotic Americans for the last two weeks, the “Immigration Reform Bill” also known as the Amnesty Bill has been killed in the Senate. Attempts to stop debate with a “cloture vote” failed, and it became obvious to the Senate majority leader Harry Reid that the Immigration Bill was hopelessly deadlocked. Sean Hannity announced on his radio show, that his sources in Congress told him the massive grass roots campaign against the Immigration Bill was alarming politicians and convinced many of them to vote against the bill.

Congress and President George Bush tried to rush through a bill that would have made a mockery of US Citizenship. It would have made citizens out of every illegal alien who sneaked into the US prior to January 2007. Illegal aliens pay almost nothing in taxes and cause an enormous financial drain on government, which means higher taxes for legal US citizens. Many public schools have been effectively destroyed by swarms of illegal alien children. American inventors have produced a wide range of robots, which can pick even grapes and strawberries. Our government should be encouraging and even helping the agriculture industry to acquire these machines rather than use Third World labor. A steady increase in the number of E-Coli and hepatitis incidents provides an even greater incentive to replace illegal aliens with machines.

The John and Ken Show on 640AM in Los Angeles began a campaign to bury Senator Dianne Feinstein with anti-Immigration Bill phone calls after she said that there was not much opposition and that she would be impressed if she got 30,000 calls against the bill. The Feinstein staff refused to say how many anti-Immigration calls they got, but Senator Feinstein credited talk radio with building a huge backlash against the bill. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer an option. Our best hope, Sanchez says, is “to stave off defeat,” and that requires more intelligence and leadership than Sanchez sees in the entirety of our national political leadership: “I am absolutely convinced that America has a crisis in leadership at this time.”

More evidence that the war is lost arrived June 4 with headlines reporting that “U.S.-led soldiers control only about a third of Baghdad, the military said on Monday.” After five years of war the U.S. controls one-third of one city and nothing else.

A host of U.S. commanding generals have said that the Iraq war is destroying the U.S. military. A year ago Colin Powell said that the U.S. Army is “about broken.” Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn says Bush has “piecemealed our force to death.” Gen. Barry McCaffrey testified to the U.S. Senate that “the Army will unravel.”

Col. Andy Bacevich, America’s foremost writer on military affairs, documents in the current issue of The American Conservative that Bush’s insane war has depleted and exhausted the U.S. Army and Marine Corps:

“Only a third of the regular Army’s brigades qualify as combat-ready. In the reserve components, none meet that standard. When the last of the units reaches Baghdad as part of the president’s strategy of escalation, the U.S. will be left without a ready-to-deploy land force reserve. (more…)

by Ian Mosley

It’s not just the monstrous U.S. Embassy that Bush is building in Baghdad which indicates that the United States has no intention of leaving Iraq in the lifetime of anyone reading these lines. The cat is pretty much out of the bag on the eternity deployment. Rummy’s replacement, the colorless flack Robert Gates, has confirmed that Iraq is effectively a US territory now.

Yahoo News reports “US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the United States is looking to a long-term military presence in Iraq under a mutually agreed arrangement similar to that it has long had with South Korea.” (We’ve been in South Korea for almost sixty years now. Some of us know grandfathers younger than that.) “Gates told reporters here that plans still call for an assessment of the US surge strategy in September but he was looking beyond that to the type of military presence the United States will have in Iraq over the long term.”

So in other words, in the administration’s mind, withdrawal of any kind simply isn’t being considered at all in spite of the daily butchery in the streets and in the desert. (more…)

by Rep. Ron Paul

Good intentions frequently lead to unintended bad consequences. Tough choices, doing what is right, often leads to unanticipated good results.

The growing demand by the American people for us to leave Iraq prompts the nay-sayers to predict disaster in the Middle East if we do. Of course, these merchants of fear are the same ones who predicted that invading and occupying Iraq would be a slam dunk operation; that we would be welcomed as liberators, and oil revenues would pay for the operation with minimal loss of American lives.

All of this hyperbole came while ignoring the precise warnings by our intelligence community of the great difficulties that would lie ahead. The chaos that this preemptive, undeclared war has created in Iraq has allowed al-Qaeda to establish a foothold in Iraq and the strategic interests of Iran to be served.

The unintended consequences have been numerous. A well-intended but flawed policy that ignored credible warnings of how things could go awry has produced conditions that have led to a war dominated by procrastination, without victory or resolution in sight.

Those who want a total military victory, which no one has yet defined, don’t have the troops, the money, the equipment, or the support of a large majority of the American people to do so.

Those in Congress who have heard the cry of the electorate to end the war refuse to do so out of fear the demagogues will challenge their patriotism and support of the troops, so nothing happens except more of the same. The result is continued stalemate with the current policy and the daily sacrifice of American lives. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Breitbart news service reports that: “An Australian hotel popular with gay men has won the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals and lesbians, officials and the owner said Monday. The Peel Hotel in Melbourne won an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent insults and abuse directed toward gays in its bars and nightclubs.”

Now, note the interesting rationalization in the article “The landmark decision by a civil tribunal gives the establishment–which does not offer accommodation–the right to refuse entry to people considered a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons. ‘The hotel predominantly markets itself towards homosexual males, towards gay men and we want to protect the integrity of the venue as well as continue to make the men feel comfortable,’ [the ironically named owner] McFeely said. ‘When large numbers of heterosexuals or even lesbians are in the hotel that changes the atmosphere and many gay men can feel uncomfortable.’”

Breitbart continues: “Helen Szoke, the chief executive of the Victoria state government’s Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, said the Peel Hotel’s gay clientele had experienced harassment, hostility and violence. ‘They also have felt as though they’ve been like a zoo exhibit with big groups of women on hens’ parties coming to the club,’ she said. McFeely said his aim was not to ban all straight patrons and lesbians but to limit their numbers so gay men could freely express their sexuality.” (more…)

by Charles Coughlin

Many ordinary Americans are shocked by the willingness of the Senate to sell out the American people and to give US citizenship to 20 million illegal alien Latinos. Don’t these Senators live in the United States? Aren’t they worried that their children and grandchildren will grow up in an America, which has been turned into a Third World country?? It’s bad enough that many of these Senators voted for NAFTA and GATT twelve years ago. Patriotic heroes like Ross Perot warned that NAFTA and GATT would eliminate millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs. Unfortunately, the treason steam-roller had considerable momentum and the Internet was too small back then to play a significant role. The “Treason Treaties” were passed despite the opposition of over 80 percent of the American people.

There is a hierarchy of things that motivate our Congressmen. In order of importance, these things are:

1).Love of power (Many stay in office until they die of old age.)

2).Fear of the Israeli Lobby (Many politicians secretly hate the neocons, but they’ll vote for wars under AIPAC pressure)

3).Selling out to big business (This is where the average Congressman gets the money to run for office.)

4).Last of all –ordinary Americans: (Congressmen only do something for us after appeasing the Israelis and big business. The more skillful Congressmen get big Defense contracts for their districts to keep unemployment down so they get reelected.)

This hierarchy is why it is so difficult to get Congress to do the right thing. The Israeli Lobby gave the green light for the war on Iraq and they want a war on Iran too. The rational thing to do in Iraq is to cut our losses and pull our troops out immediately. Unfortunately the Israelis want us occupying Iraq forever. It should be none of our business who runs Iraq, but because of the Israeli Lobby, we will be occupying Iraq for a long, long time. (more…)

by Ian Mosley

The American infantry soldiers still on the ground in Iraq are becoming increasingly depressed, demoralized and disillusioned. A few of them force down the neocon Kool Aid about making Iraq a democracy. By the third or fourth tour, it’s getting to be more about survival than idealism. They volunteered to defend America from real threats, not to die in Iraq for Israel and Halliburton.

The International Herald Tribune reports that: “In interviews with more than a dozen soldiers over a one-week period, most said they were disillusioned by repeated deployments, by what they saw as the abysmal performance of Iraqi security forces and by a conflict that they considered a civil war, one they had no ability to stop. They had seen shadowy militia commanders installed as Iraqi Army officers, they said, had come under increasing attack from roadside bombs - planted within sight of Iraqi Army checkpoints - and had fought against Iraqi soldiers whom they thought were their allies.”

When push finally comes to shove over there, on whose side will the so-called “Iraqi Army” fight? At whom will all those guns we handed over to them be pointed? Or will they drop their guns and run away as the more-motivated private militias fight it out to control Iraq? (more…)

by Ian Mosley

Hundreds of British soldiers have died in the inferno of Iraq, sent there by a Prime Minister who was nothing but a puppet of the American Presidency. Has this finally awakened a long-dormant awareness of the Jewish problem in the people of Great Britain? The Israelis certainly seem to think so, and they’re worried.

According to an editorial in the newspaper Haaretz, which is roughly Israel’s equivalent of the New York Times, “Britain has become in recent years the battlefield in Israel’s fight for its existence as a Jewish state. The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.”

Haaretz goes on to cite the latest example of anti-Semitism from Blighty: “On Wednesday, representatives of the new British University and College Union (UCU) will be meeting in Bournemouth. On the agenda is another proposal to boycott Israel’s academic institutions. These proposals have become as regular and as predictable as Qassam attacks on Sderot….The fact that Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Authority, does not recognize even pre-1967 Israel, and commits acts of terror against civilians, does not matter either. These nuances did not stop one boycott initiator from saying last week that justice in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is entirely on one side.” (more…)

by Jeff Davis

CNN news ran an article with the title “Anger over immigration plan surprises GOP senators.” The elitist snobs in the Senate must be seriously out of touch if they can’t figure out that granting citizenship to 20 million illegals isn’t going to outrage Americans. The CNN article reports “In his speech Tuesday on immigration reform, President Bush was trying to provide political cover for members of Congress to support the legislation. That could be tough. Republicans are getting an earful on immigration. ‘I have learned some new words from some of my constituents,’ Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, said. The angry response comes as a shock. ‘The level of intensity and volume is, I think, surprising,’ CNN contributor and radio talk show host Bill Bennett said. ‘We’ve talked to a number of Republican senators, and they confessed to being surprised by the reaction.’”

Karl Rove sure seems to be losing his touch. The master of dirty tricks and manipulation has run into a brick wall on the immigration issue. The “immigration reform bill” (read amnesty for 20 million illegals) turned out to be a blazing hot potato which even the normally ponderous and impervious Senate has dropped for a few weeks after searing their fingers.

Yahoo News reports that democracy in action has triumphed: the Senate has postponed the bill for a month until June. The news article reports “Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status. The measure, which also tightens border security and workplace enforcement measures,” (a fig leaf to cover the massive amnesty, window dressing which is not taken seriously by anyone) “unites a group of influential liberals, centrists and conservatives and has White House backing, but it has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. In a nod to that opposition, Senate leaders won’t seek to complete it before a hoped-for Memorial Day deadline.” (more…)