CIA Officer Leak
 

Please remember, too, that Plame's bailiwick was WMD interdiction in the ME. While W & Co were pushing the case in war, supposedly to control WMD, they outed a CIA WMD operative just to score some cheap and largely inconsequential political points. Regardless of whether or not Rove (or whomever) is found guilty, this is despicable behavior.

CIA Officer Leak
 

Maybe Sid hates Shriners?
http://www.seshrine.org/images/offjayroetgerald.jpg

Or a particular breed of Basset hound?
http://www.traffordphotos.com/assets...s/9M69D-11.jpg

CIA Officer Leak
 

If it was Karl Rove, I'd like to know why a political advisor would have access to that kind of information. I don't think he was made Deputy Chief of Staff until fairly recently.

CIA Officer Leak
 

If Whitewater taught us anything, it's that you don't need to be aiming for a conviction to get a good scandal going that can ruin lots of people.

ETA, plus, I'm pretty sure that if it's Rove, you guys will finally get your beloved perjury conviction. He's been before that Grand Jury a few times.

Mourning the Farce of July -- Iraq & Amerika: http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html
 

Thanks for clarifying your point. As far as I know the terrorists who bombed the train Madrid were not trained in Iraq. But who knows? I doubt that they were coordinated from Iraq -- I think they were coordinated from whereever many of the attacks in Iraq are coordinated from. Like a cave in Pakistan.

But really -- suggesting that this makes the "breeding ground" claim hollow? It took quite a few years before people trained in Afghanistan began attacking the US or Russia elsewhere.

And it's not like they don't have an abundance of American targets in Iraq. I don't understand why supporters of the war think American deaths don't "count" if they aren't being killed on US soil. When we invaded Iraq, did anyone anticipate 1500 American soldiers being killed by terrorists?

CIA Officer Leak
 

No. Wahhabi is a particular brand of a particular religion.

It's like calling someone "fundamentalist," only much more so.

And I don't only use it for people who I think are crazy. I use it for people who I think are fundamentalist, with a "those who are against me are evil and must die!!!" edge.

CIA Officer Leak
 

Nope, it's not that either.

Unless you are saying that we should embrace the Wahhabis, of course.


"Wahhabi" does not equal "Islam"

Mourning the Farce of July -- Iraq & Amerika: http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html
 

You have a point there, I must admit.

But doesn't someone usually plan suicide bombings? At least those that are effective?

(Are the attacks on US troops suicide bombings? I thought they were mostly RPGs and roadside bombs.)

CIA Officer Leak
 

I will stipulate to being a Wasabi Republican. I am not sure what a Wahhabi Republican is, so no comment there.

CIA Officer Leak
 

I think Jayson Blair is covering the story for the NYTimes. The liberals' paper of record.

CIA Officer Leak
 

That proves its not Rove. He'd never put his ass on the line like that. He'd be giving up a defensible disclosure charge for an indefensible perjury charge. Rove would never do something that stupid. Trust his fate to Time and the NYTimes? Nah, if he's been before the GJ, he isn't the leak.

CIA Officer Leak
 

Yes - it is that. Wahhabism is a sect of Islam, just like Congretionalists are a sect of Christianity. So denigrating them is religious bigotry. But then again, so is denigrating Scientologists, or our Hale Bop friends. But it is not a problem for me because I will openly admist that I have some religious bigotries.

Mourning the Farce of July -- Iraq & Amerika: http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html
 

I believe the vast majority of recent deaths have been caused by suicide bombers.

Mourning the Farce of July -- Iraq & Amerika: http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html
 

Are you suggesting that US forces in Iraq are facing a horde of individually motivated, self taught suicide bombers whose placing and timing are only seemingly coordinated?

CIA Officer Leak
 

That's not the only defence. Although we don't know for sure, it is very possible that Plame doesn't fall under a class protected by the statute because she hasn't worked undercover outside the US during the last 5 years. But I agree with you, if it gets to this, the jig is up.