Are we getting anywhere?

Is it the Valerie Plame problem that is going to emerge as the focus of the Fitzgerald investigation or will it be the White House Iraqi Group? Some are suggesting the latter. The WHIG, if you are unfamiliar with it, was a group that included Cheney, Rice, Libby, Rove, I assume Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and several others, and met (conspired?) specifically to decide how to bring about a "war" with Iraq. Judy Miller was, I gather, not a memeber of this group, per se, but was used by them for their purposes. This whole business is beginning to become much clearer as Fitzgerald is moving closer to the end of his investigation. Whether this is really the focus of his work I do not know as he has been extremely close-mouthed about what he is doing and thinking. Nor do I know if he might be able to actually prove such a conspiracy. I personally have no doubt that this is precisely what happened. Indeed, Wolfowitz (at least I remember it being him) actually admitted that they settled on the issue of WMD's as they felt that was the one issue that would work the best to bring about the result they wanted, namely, starting a "war" with Iraq. I insist on the quotation marks because in fact no real war was ever declared. Bush's claim of a "war on terror" is no more than meaningless nonsense and has been from the beginning. A "war on terror" simply allows the Bush/Cheney administration to permanently engage in military endeavors everywhere in the world at their whim and thus keep pouring more and more dollars into the hands of their corporate friends such as Halliburton, General Electric, Lockeed Martin, Boeing, and etc. The national defense budget of the U.S. now exceeds the entire national budgets of most of the rest of the world. It is totally absurd that we should be spending so much money for more and more and more armaments, planes, submarines, carriers, tanks, and whatever when realistically there is no need for such total overkill. This is precisely what Eisenhower warned against - a military-industrial complex that would take food out of the mouths of babes (and everyone else). Our military budget can only be realistically described as OBSCENE.

Bush/Cheney are also trying to maneuver us into a situation where they might be able to declare martial law. Remember we now have a purely volunteer army, an army that did not come about because of a bunch of noble American patriots who wanted to defend their country. It is composed of a bunch of poor people who enlisted for the money and the opportunity to get more out of life. As they are interested in their paychecks and priviledges their loyalty may (I emphasize "may" because it remains to be seen) lie with those who pay them rather than with their defense of the constitution and their country. Bush Cheney have already tried to do away with Posse Commitas and are now suggesting that in case of a pandemic of some kind the army should be put in charge. And don't forget they have also been using paid mercenaries in Iraq and in New Orleans. This is exceedingly dangerous business. But it does raise the question as to what would happen in the U.S. (where the public is already armed to the teeth and we have such a huge country) if they actually attempted to establish martial law. I suspect that terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan would pale into insignificance when compared to what might well happen here.

Do not allow yourselves to be lulled into believing it can't happen here. The Bush/Cheney administration is evil, rotten to the core, corrupt and unprincipled, greedy and mercilous. And they are not going to willingly give up power, especially as they fear what would (rightly) happen to them. Be prepared, something very serious is about to happen.