{"id":457,"date":"2006-09-03T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/03\/confusion\/"},"modified":"2006-09-03T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T13:23:44","slug":"confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/03\/confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"bzzzz&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"91\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:MaVMAbUvYtepXM:http:\/\/gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov\/na\/bflr.jpeg\" \/>I&#8217;m way outside of my skill-set here. There remains a low-level buzz <a href=\"http:\/\/thenexthurrah.typepad.com\/the_next_hurrah\/2006\/09\/primary_source_.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/noquarter.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2006\/09\/wrecking_patric.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleftcoaster.com\/archives\/008629.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>[3]<\/strong><\/a> that Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is still at it &#8211; and that Cheney is his target. I have no way to evaluate whether it&#8217;s wishful thinking, or good sleuthing. It&#8217;s all based on the fact that there&#8217;s a lot of noise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/31\/AR2006083101460.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>debunking Fitzgerald<\/strong><\/a> and his investigation since the Armitage data came out. Why bother to go after him, if he&#8217;s not up to something?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s so ridiculous to have this situation to deal with &#8211; a corrupt Administration trying to justify its own failure and perpetuate itself using the same tactics that caused that failure. We&#8217;re being asked to go down a path that has lead us further astray than we&#8217;ve ever been, and we&#8217;re being exhorted to keep going down it. Little wonder that we sit around hoping for a <strong><em>deus ex machina<\/em><\/strong> to save us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It all hinges on the issue they&#8217;re talking about in their recent speeches &#8211; unilateral, preemptive military action. They say that it was required because Saddam Hussein was a Hitler, that waiting would have had dire consequences. As it turns out, the opposite is true. Not waiting and not working through the U.N. has proved to be a disaster. A lot of us knew that intuitively. We never believed that Iraq was a threat to the U.S., not even a threat to Israel. But right now, it&#8217;s more than the mistake, if that weren&#8217;t enough. It&#8217;s about their lying to get it to happen. They were so keen that they were right that they went around our governmental processes to do what they wanted. That&#8217;s almost worse than the war itself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I hope the buzz is right. The integrity of our government is at stake. The deluded people who elected this government [and the rest of the world] needs to see that we won&#8217;t tolerate this kind of treason&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m way outside of my skill-set here. There remains a low-level buzz [1][2][3] that Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is still at it &#8211; and that Cheney is his target. I have no way to evaluate whether it&#8217;s wishful thinking, or good sleuthing. It&#8217;s all based on the fact that there&#8217;s a lot of noise debunking Fitzgerald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}