“The answer is that almost none of the chicken hawks who are so bellicose, or their families, have ever taken the personal risk they have imposed on our soldiers.” — In fact, Congressmen and senators have a disproportionate number of family members in Iraq, compared to the rest of the population. A substantial number senators and congressmen are veterans of Desert Storm, Nam, Korea, even still WWII. The sitting President has over 300 hours flying time in a fighter that was dangerous to its pilots the Air Force pulled it out of service. The current secretary of Defense flew Navy patrol bombers.

If taking the risks counts so much, how come we never saw the Kerry or Carter girls running off to be human shields?

Oh what I would sacrifice were this to be 100% true. Rove as evil genius who simply cannot be overcome. Progressives running around aimlessly but always doomed to eventual defeat and humiliation.

Heaven on earth.

Judy Miller keynote speaker and David Corn on the editorial board. He’s allegedly one of the people along with Wilson and Kristof who orchestrated the yellowcake caper to embarrass Bush and throw a monkey wrench into the war effort.

How the worm has turned.

“Fitzgeralds words “the indictments are not about the war” and the thought that anyone who tried to use this trial to fight the 2004 election all over again would be frustrated. But the press is going to do it for a couple of weeks anyway. But in a couple of weeks they are going to find that there is nothing in the indictments or the trial to latch their anti-war propaganda on to.”

I was stunned to find exactly this on the front page of the fishwrap this morning. They really are prisoners of their delusions. There were, I think, 41 indictments under Clinton. Were any of them covered like this? Anybody up for a pool predicting the date of the next round of layoffs at the NYT?

Lastly, Walton is “a heavy hitter,” blah, blah. He is also a recent Bush appointee, who was formerly director of WH drug policy who could know Scooter and thus may recuse himself in the future. Then again, he may not.

The cards are shuffled and ready to be dealt.

Lastly, Walton is “a heavy hitter,” blah, blah. He is also a recent Bush appointee, who was formerly director of WH drug policy who could know Scooter and thus may recuse himself in the future. Then again, ne may not.

The cards are shuffled and ready to be dealt.

You are right that the thread got hijacked but the left had geared up to use the indictments as an excuse to replay the Bush lied, war for oil, chickenhawk, he did it because they tried to kill his daddy, bumpersticker cliche-athon.

Unfortunetly Fitzgeralds words “the indictments are not about the war” and the thought that anyone who tried to use this trial to fight the 2004 election all over again would be frustrated. But the press is going to do it for a couple of weeks anyway. But in a couple of weeks they are going to find that there is nothing in the indictments or the trial to latch their anti-war propaganda on to. The trial is so narrowly focused and Fitgerald can’t and won’t use it as a platform to pontificate from. He is out for a conviction and he will probably get it. And unless Libby comes up with an outstanding excuse for his memory loss he is going to be convicted and as far as I can tell he deserves it.Case closed, Rove will still be driving the conspiracy people wild. The evil genius foils the noble members of the blow dried press again.

Hey, between me and Vnjagvets we got it covered. LOL

Actually, I don’t think it looks like it’s going to be easy for him.

BTW, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, according to Greta, sentences on the high end.

jedrury

I hope you’re right. But I don’t share your skepticism of Fitzgerald. He prosecuted the blind sheik, which sticks in my mind.

I, like many others I”m sure, file away names in my brain in buckets representing admiration, credibility, etc. (Yeah, I’ve got a bucket for jerks too). I can recall what bucket a name is in, but I can’t always recall why I put it there.

Fitz was found in one of the good buckets.