Something is rotten in the heart of Washington; and it lies in the vice-president’s office. The salience of this case is obvious. What it is really about – what it has always been about – is whether this administration deliberately misled the American people about WMD intelligence before the war. The risks Cheney took to attack Wilson, the insane over-reaction that otherwise very smart men in this administration engaged in to rebut a relatively trivial issue: all this strongly implies the fact they were terrified that the full details of their pre-war WMD knowledge would come out. Fitzgerald could smell this. He was right to pursue it, and to prove that a brilliant, intelligent, sane man like Libby would risk jail to protect his bosses. What was he really trying to hide? We now need a Congressional investigation to find out more, to subpoena Cheney and, if he won’t cooperate, consider impeaching him.
Andrew Sullivan is a conservative professional blogger for The Atlantic OnLine. What he says here [to the horror of his conservative peers] is dead center on target. The point from my perspective is not that this conservative pundit has "come around." The point is that this is not a conservative/liberal issue. It never has been. The vicious civil war between conservative and liberal that has been waged for the last six plus years is the creation of an Administration that is neither. By pitting liberal against conservative and Christian against everyone_else, this Administration has controlled our country while pursuing another agenda – one that many call neoconservative, but even that is a bit lofty. I hope Andrew Sullivan’s is the first of many to detach the true traditional conservative from this pack of self-righteous fools that have lead us down the dead end street to the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of our Constitution.
There is definitely something very rotten in the heart of Washington, and we need the principled conservatives to help us get it stopped before it is too late. How we miss the days when Liberals and Conservatives debated rather than demonized each other.
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