Is anyone really surprised?

If you have been following the news (the real news on the internet, that is) instead of wasting your time watching the main stream media, you will know that the Plame scandal is now reaching into the White House itself. Personally, I knew the first time I heard Skooter Libby's name mentioned it would lead directly to Cheney. Libby would not have done anything like that without Slimy Dick's approval. It is by now perfectly obvious that Rove and Libby were clearly involved in one way or another (in spite of McClelland's blatant lies to the contrary) and Judith Miller's role will no doubt become clearer in the immediate future. It has been suggested that both Bush and Cheney may have been present at meetings where the question of Wilson was discussed. I might be surprised about Bush's presence as I'm not sure I think they would trust him to be involved in anything so important. Fitzgerald may be trying to get a conspiracy conviction but no one seems to know for certain. Conspiracy is very difficult to prove, especially criminal conspiracy because you have to prove criminal intent. As far as I am concerned whether Fitzgerald can prove it or not it is almost certainly true. High level members of the administration were certainly discussing the issue of Wilson, and this must have included Cheney if not Bush, and one has to assume they were not discussing giving him the medal of honor. Of course this will also prove to have something to do with Miller's dishonest articles promoting the lies of the administration with respect to WMD's and etc. In fact, there is no telling where this may lead.

I am not so sure the Plame scandal, by itself, will do much to undermine the corrupt Bush/Cheney administration. Perhaps it doesn't matter much as by now there are so many problems and scandals beginning to surface it is virtually impossible to even keep track of them. And if you think things are going well in Iraq, that progress is being made, that American soldiers are seen as liberators, you had better think more carefully about the facts. Sunnis are killing Shiites, Shiites are killing Sunnis, the Kurds are now claiming the Shiites have not lived up to their obligations, U.S. troops are clearly caught up in a civil war (which no one seems to be willing to admit to) and, in fact, after all this time and effort there is only one (1) Iraqi battalion prepared to act on its own! Ah, yes, as they stand up we will stand down. Sorry, we are going to stand down big time and not very far in the future. Even the Generals acknowledge that our troops are much of the problem (those that don't blatantly lie, that is).

I saw somewhere today that only one third of the American public believes Bush is doing a good job in Iraq (or I guess anywhere else for that matter). So how much lower does it have to go before something actually changes? I also find myself unbelievably frustrated trying to figure out have even one third could possibly continue to support these lying war criminals. Is mental retardation that rampant in the American population?