Replies to post #31743 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[jbennett53]

Rick, ""Was it a deliberate attempt to mislead the American public, a deliberate attempt to fill them with the fear of terrorist mushroom clouds from Iraq?""
Most Americans believe what they first hear, especially when it comes from the President. Just look at poll numbers after every State of the Union speech. The numbers always rocket up the day after.
Bush and the current US equities markets look to be made of Teflon, all bad news just slips off.
Bush will win another term in office and most likely then will have to face the the really bad news from Iraq and Afghanistan. The only real question is can the US get out of those messes without serious and disastrous consequences. If we are lucky as a nation we will only be financially wounded. If we are unlucky we may find ourselves spiritually wounded as with the Vietnam fiasco and financially destroyed as well.

[seabass]

>>>Her service? Valerie Plame ran a clandestine global network designed to track any person, group or nation that might try to deliver weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.<<<

You really have to think that the full scope of this story hasn't quite sunk in yet among citizens and media types or outrage in some shape or form would be expressed. This is unbelievable. Bush administration officials, as payback for political dissent, blow the cover of a CIA agent having a key role (extremely dangerous at that) in the war on terror.