Too many people are going through tortured gyrations to explain away what happened in some way that will make Dubya and the White House somehow seem less culpable. But the simplest explanation is that the White House was angry at Wilson for publicly declaring that there was no Iraqi attempt to purchase uranium, that it decided to get back at him without any regard for consequences. Absent any reason to believe otherwise, in this case I think Occam's Razor holds.
Of course, as a known opponent of Bush, I am obviously interpreting this situation in the way most injurious to the White House. I admit that. I still think that someone in the White House wanted to injure Wilson and decided to crap on his wife. And the idea that Bush doesn't know who did it - and can't instantly find out - strikes me as ludicrous. He's the president - either he's on top of things (in which case, he knows who did it and is lying) or he's not on top of things (in which case who's actually running the country?) All he has to do is order his staff to 'fess up and promise that heads will roll if they don't. That he hasn't done so to me indicates either he knows or he doesn't want to know. Either way, it makes a mockery of his public stance that he wants to get to the bottom of this. The current Bush admin is a bunch of monarchists who act as if they believe "the king can do no wrong". And that the rest of us are supposed to bow and scrape and knuckle our foreheads and avert our eyes and supplicate to His Majesty. This is a prime example of them thinking they can do something that, if it happened when Clinton was in the White House, they would be shrieking to the high heavens merited impeachment (if not disembowelment without trial). This is a scummy act of political revenge, and anyone who doesn't see it that way is deliberately blinding themselves. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
