July 19, 2005
Bush II; Day 258: Let's not forget, this is all about the War
It's fun to be all mad at Rove for leaking and Bush for lying and the press corp for wimping out, but let's not forget why this matters: the White House set out to smear a government official who was trying to expose that this White House wanted to go to war so bad that it demonstrated willful dishonesty about the rationale for war and wanton disregard for the rule of law or the structure of our system of government to go to war as desired. Really. That's what this is really about.
And meanwhile, the White House continues to wantonly disregard the rule of law, and no one is holding them accountable. Like Congress. See the Pentagon owes Congress some info about the War. And they simply are not delivering it. Info about exactly how it's going over there. In some circles that would be called "Contempt of Congress."
You know they keep complaining that we're all influenced by the nightly news of more bombings and insurgency attacks in Iraq, that the news media isn't giving us the true, glowing, positive picture.
So, dudes, fork over the data, the metrics, the info that would prove it's really all going swimmingly.
Hmmm. What possible reason could they have for missing their deadline to provide data that shows how things are going over there? What reason could they have? Hey, I know...maybe because it's a big old mess, and they have no idea how to fix it?
Hat tip to The Talent Show for the link.