perfidy

Buckethead,

For my part I became suspicious over the uranium thingy (as you so eloquently put it) when the administration began spinning feverishly over such a little question. I have noted before the lies, damn lies, howlers, and bullshit that various members of the President's staff reeled off, none of them quite jibing with the other. Condi said one thing. Bush said another. Then Bush altered recent history. Then Ari the Master altered more history. Then Rummy chimed in. Then Powell, Tenet, and a whole Geek Chorus of right-wing minipundits, all assuring people like me that no, there is nothing to worry about, but each differing about what it was I should not worry about.

So, maybe I am reading too much into this situation, but the stammering evasiveness with which the uranium story has been met does nothing to assure me that the people responsible for keeping the facts straight are certain which facts they know.

I see smoke, I think fire.

It could be a simple matter of the left and right hands not working together. But when I hear other rumblings from the military, the Pentagon, and State ( or when I see any infighting this intense anywhere), and when I see that not even one head has rolled despite the CIA and FBI's continued bumbling, when a little matter of speech-vetting becomes the hottest potato of the year, and when I hear the ballsiest doublespeak I have EVER heard from a President not named Bill roll trippingly off Dubya's tongue, I begin to suspect that the small matter of uranium represents a systemic tendency on the part of the President and his advisors to cut important corners, lie, cajole, and ignore inconvenient truths^✶"truths" of course, meaning "principles" or "opinions." Truth is an illusion, lunchtruth doubly so.. Every President does it. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

And, Buckethead, on the matter of impeachment. Clinton got impeached because he accepted a blow-job and then lied about it. If you ask me, the Republicans set the bar pretty damn low.