Monday, July 04, 2005

Associated Press photo Bush's brain (and a closet case, I have long suspected), Karl Rove. What would Bush do if his brain were put behind bars, where it belongs? Karl Rove, traitorous piece of shit Not long after Karl Rove -- whose paycheck is picked up by American taxpayers (he is deputy White House chief of staff) -- remarked of liberals, "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," it seems apparent that Rove outed a CIA operative -- whose job was to help prevent terrorist attacks against Americans and American interests -- for cheap political revenge. Apparently, for Rove political pettiness and the arrogant -- and illegal -- abuse of political power came before protecting Americans against terrorist attacks, yet Rove, in his manner that would make Joseph Goebbels jealous, claimed that it is the liberals that aid and abet the enemy. Who is aiding and abetting the enemy? The oily Bush family has long been buddy-buddy with the oily ruling family of Saudi Arabia, and 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Fucking Arabia. Not one of them was an Iraqi. The Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist March 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq has been the jihadist's wet dream. What better jihadist recruitment method was there than for the Bush regime to invade a sovereign Muslim nation that not only did absolutely nothing to the United States but did not even have the capability to do anything to the United States? Yet it's the liberals (translation: the Democrats) who are pro-terrorist, the BushNazis lie. These treasonous war criminals should be tried and executed -- if properly tried, undoubtedly they would be found guilty -- for their treason and for their war crimes. Instead, we allow them to walk freely and to continue to spew forth such bloody fucking Nazi-like lies as "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." The members of the Bush regime had better pray that justice is never done, because if justice were ever done they would find themselves six feet under, just like the hundreds of American soldiers and the thousands of Iraqis whom they have murdered with their innumerable lies that have been meant to serve as a cover for BushCheneyCorp's war-profiteering -- its looting of the U.S. treasury via its fabricated war in Iraq. Anyway, here is Ted Rall's take on Traitor Rove (this column of his is slated to be released tomorrow). I called for the execution of the treasonous war criminals of the Bush regime some time ago here. Now someone else is using the "e" word. I hope that this is the tipping point. Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama bin Laden FBI and Congress Must Act Against White House Traitors NEW YORK -- In war, collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal. If, as state-controlled media insist, there is such a creature as a Global War on Terrorism, our enemies are underground Islamist organizations allied with or ideologically similar to those that attacked us on 9/11. But who are the collaborators? The right points to critics like Michael Moore, yours truly, and Ward Churchill, the Colorado professor who points out the gaping chasm between America's high-falooting rhetoric and its historical record. But these bête noires are guilty only of the all-American actions of criticism and dissent, not to mention speaking uncomfortable truths to liars and deniers. As far as we know, no one on what passes for the "left" (which would be the center-right anywhere else) has betrayed the United States in the GWOT. No anti-Bush progressive has made common cause with Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or any other officially designated "terrorist" group. No American liberal has handed over classified information or worked to undermine the CIA. But it now appears that Karl Rove, GOP golden boy, has done exactly that. Last week Time magazine turned over its reporter's notes to a special prosecutor assigned to learn who told Republican columnist Bob Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. The revelation, which effectively ended Plame's CIA career and may have endangered her life, followed her husband Joe Wilson's publication of a New York Times op-ed piece that embarrassed the Bush Administration by debunking its claims that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger. Time's cowardly decision to break its promise to a confidential source has had one beneficial side effect: According to Newsweek, it indicates that Karl Rove himself made the call to Novak. One might have expected Rove, the master White House political strategist who engineered Bush's 2000 coup d'état and post-9/11 permanent war public relations campaign, to have ordered a flunky underling to carry out this act of high treason. But as the Arab saying goes, arrogance diminishes wisdom. Rove, whose gaping maw recently vomited forth that Democrats didn't care about 9/11, is atypically silent. He did talk to the Time reporter but "never knowingly disclosed classified information," claims his attorney. But there's circumstantial evidence to go along with Time's leaked notes. Ari Fleischer abruptly resigned as Bush's press secretary on May 16, 2003, about the same time the White House became aware of Ambassador Wilson's plans to go public. (Wilson's article appeared July 6.) Did Fleischer quit because he didn't want to act as spokesman for Rove's plan to betray CIA agent Plame? Another interesting coincidence: Novak published his Plame column on July 14, Fleischer's last day on the job. If Newsweek's report is accurate, Karl Rove is more morally repugnant and more anti-American than Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden, after all, has no affiliation with, and therefore no presumed loyalty to, the United States. Rove, on the other hand, is a U.S. citizen and, as deputy White House chief of staff, a high-ranking official of the U.S. government sworn to uphold and defend our nation, its laws and its interests. Yet he sold out America just to get even with Joe Wilson. Osama bin Laden, conversely, is loyal to his cause. He has never exposed an Al Qaeda agent's identity to the media. "[Knowingly revealing Plame's name and undercover status to the media]...is a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and is punishable by as much as ten years in prison," notes The Washington Post. Unmasking an intelligent agent during a time of war, however, surely rises to giving aid and comfort to America's enemies -- treason. Treason is punishable by execution under the United States Code. How far up the White House food chain does the rot of treason go? "Bush has always known how to keep Rove in his place," wrote Time in 2002 about a "symbiotic relationship" that dates to 1973. This isn't some rogue "plumbers" operation. Rove would never go it alone on a high-stakes action like Valerie Plame. It's a safe bet that other, higher-ranking figures in the Bush cabal -- almost certainly Dick Cheney and possibly Bush himself -- signed off before Rove called Novak. For the sake of national security, those involved should be removed from office at once. Rove and his collaborators should quickly resign and face prosecution for betraying their country, but given their sense of personal entitlement impeachment is probably the best we can hope for. Congress, and all Americans, should place patriotism ahead of party loyalty. 1:46:17 PM    Comments []