Silver Bells
Christmas comes early. What will we get? Maybe even - a pony? I admit that I was just on the edge of too cynical to think that anyone important would ever want to answer the question, “So, uh, who forged the bogus Niger documents anyway?” How sweet to be pulled, however provisionally, back from that brink.
And when I talk about Christmas, and “we,” I don’t just mean for doves and other opponents of the Administration. I mean anyone who cares, or should care, about accountable government. At this point I’m less interested in collecting any particular scalps than in having the whole story of the warhawks’ shoddy and duplicitous sales job laid out for all to see. It looks like we’re really going to get that.
Comment by Diana —
October 28, 2005 @ 10:33 am
I always add real vanilla bean to my yellowcake:
http://counterpunch.org/
Comment by Nell —
October 28, 2005 @ 10:36 am
the whole story of the warhawks’ shoddy and duplicitous sales job laid out for all to see. It looks like we’re really going to get that.
Do you think so? It seems, still, too much to hope for. But I’ve laid in some Bushmill’s to celebrate with. The beauty is, it can be used for consolation just as easily… Cheers! [clink]
Comment by Jim Henley —
October 28, 2005 @ 10:40 am
Now that’s the spirit! Too bad I don’t drink!
Comment by Anodyne —
October 28, 2005 @ 12:33 pm
I second that emotion, Nell. Bushmill’s is a no-lose proposition.
Comment by Bill —
October 28, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
Bushmill’s? Nope. I got really sick on it while working in the bush in 1978.
How about Glenfiddich?
I agree with Jim the real pony would be the complete story of what happened, Republican scalps aren’t worth that much,anyway. Most of those guys are bald .
I don’t know what the Bushies strategy will be - let everything come out now and hope that by the time the next election rolls around there will be other issues to press? Or keep denying and obfuscating and hope the dribs and drabs of information that will emerge, won’t be put together into a credible story until it is much too late.
Comment by Anodyne —
October 28, 2005 @ 7:50 pm
Bill,
Well, there goes my Bushmill’s magic bullet theory. Glenfiddich won’t work either for reasons, er … I let it go at that.
Btw, ”… much too late.” for what?
Comment by Bill —
October 28, 2005 @ 10:09 pm
Anodyne-
too late to avert the catastrophic end of civilization as we know it?
Okay I meant if it comes out in bits and pieces, the impact of the full story is lost on the public. I should have just said that instead of too late.
Too much Glenfiddich
Comment by Jon H —
October 29, 2005 @ 2:10 am
”I don’t know what the Bushies strategy will be - let everything come out now and hope that by the time the next election rolls around there will be other issues to press? ”
I wonder if they’ll try to end the prosecution by claiming it would result in classified information being revealed in open court.
Haven’t they used that excuse before, in anti-terror prosecutions?
Comment by Jim Henley —
October 29, 2005 @ 9:02 am
Actually, it’s a general problem with national security cases. It’s one of the reasons there are so few espionage prosecutions. ”Greymail” is a defense tactic of claiming that the defendent will need to bring all sorts of classified info before the court to mount an effective defense, including stuff the government really doesn’t want out there. In response the government often accepts a plea to a lesser charge or lets the defendant walk. (Defendant loses job and, depending on grievances, benefits, but stays out of jail or at least avoids the chair.)
Comment by Nell —
October 29, 2005 @ 2:06 pm
Okay, after recovering from a slight Bushmill’s-induced hangover, I agree very much with Billmon, especially on this:
we all want to believe Fitzgerald is trying to spear Moby Dick (”From hell’s heart I stab at thee!”) and if the neocons should have taught us anything, it’s to be inordinately suspicious of your fondest dreams.
Fitzgerald isn’t going to do the Niger forgery investigation for us, much less the whole web of deceptions that led to war. But the case is, as Digby says, the hook that allows that story to be told.
Conveniently for gutless Democrats who voted for the war resolution, it also allows them to explain their support with something other than their own political cowardice. Fine by me: as long as they cooperate in pushing the narrative of the systematic deception, and therefore in pushing for an end to U.S. troops and bases in Iraq, I’ll lay off the reproach. Starting now.
Comment by belle waring —
November 1, 2005 @ 4:11 am
I hate scotch. it’s like drinking peat moss, and ”irish whiskey” is more of the same. whatever happened to bourbon? also, I’ll see you in DC soon…coming down from NY after Thanksgiving weekend…