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July 17, 2005
Much Worse than Watergate: Iraq War Was a Re-Election Ploy
As we become immersed in the Watergate-like mystery of the unfolding Rove/Plame affair, it is helpful to find two excellent writers who see straight through to the heart of the scandal's significance. One is the progressive framing expert, Dr. Jeffery Feldman, who nails the true motivation behind the rush to war and the attendant smearing of anyone who exposed the fallacy of the Bush Administration's case for war:
The Frameshop: The Iraq War Was for Bush's Re-Election
Another truthteller is Frank Rich of The New York Times. For Rich, the Watergate-era admonition of "Follow the Money" no longer applies; it is now "Follow the Uranium":
This case is about Iraq, not Niger. The real victims are the American people, not the Wilsons. The real culprit - the big enchilada, to borrow a 1973 John Ehrlichman phrase from the Nixon tapes - is not Mr. Rove but the gang that sent American sons and daughters to war on trumped-up grounds and in so doing diverted finite resources, human and otherwise, from fighting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. That's why the stakes are so high: this scandal is about the unmasking of an ill-conceived war, not the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative who posed for Vanity Fair.
To read more of Frank Rich's brilliant analysis, visit The New York Times:
Undermining our own national security, killing or maiming thousands of American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians, and devastating an ancient land: all of this is based on a web of deception for political gain. In a new version of Republican "trickle-down," the truth is emerging, drop by drop. As progressives, we can help it along by taking action, such as attending the Rovegate / Downing Street Memo Event that PDiddie tells us about in the post below.
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