Musafir's Musings

From the information available,it can safely be assumed that his boss was not far behind. They are writhing,the slimy creatures of the Bush White House. Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer write in the Post 'A Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic: "As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney's former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time described a "concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" -- using classified information -- to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a critic of President Bush's war in Iraq." Things are falling in place. Does not mean that the president and his aides will receive their just desserts but America and the world will know them for what they are. Thanks to Patrick Fitzgerald,the Bush administration's efforts to bluff,bully and subvert the nation are being exposed in full colors. It warms the cockles of my heart.

• Bluntly and repeatedly, Fitzgerald placed Cheney at the center of that campaign. Citing grand jury testimony from the vice president's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Fitzgerald fingered Cheney as the first to voice a line of attack that at least three White House officials would soon deploy against former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
  

Sometimes the wheels of justice move in strange ways. Not hard to imagine the gnashing of teeth by the smarmy former AG John Ashcroft and the Republicans about the appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald. If they only knew.

What made Tony Blair a member of the cabal for war is a mystery. Now his name,too, will be tied for ever to Bush and Cheney.
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"Fair is foul and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
---Wm.Shakespeare, The Three Witches, Macbeth