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Bob Novak is a despicable, long time Republican propagandist. He proved again what a partisan pimp he was when he was the first to attack Joe Wilson's criticism of Bush's rush to war, by exposing Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent to get back at Wilson for not supporting Bush's marching orders.
Under any other U.S. Presidency in our history, this kind of traitorous outing of one of our spys for political revenge would have been delt with harshly and quickly by the President. Unless of course the orders came directly from the President or one of his closest advisors as suspected in this case and evidenced by the obvious stalling and retreat to justice comming from the White House.
Novak, the weasal, shocked everyone (except the mainstream media, that barely mentioned it) when he said in a speech he gave to the John Locke Foundation that Bush knows who Novak's secret source was for his newspaper column outing Valerie Plame as a spy.
This should be headline news, it's a much bigger criminal cover-up than anything Nixon ever did and certainly makes the the Republican's hype about how serious Clinton's sexual lie seem like child's play in comparison. In this case we have a President in complicity with lies and a coverup, bordering on treason, that threatened our national security and may have led to the deaths of other U.S. spies that were exposed by this desperate act of political revenge.
I know you had to look hard to find a mention of this in the chicken shit mainstream media.
Where all you read today is Bush's current propaganda push about victory in Iraq, "Even knowing what I know now, I would do it all over again".
When asked about Novak's accusation the White House said it can't comment on the leak while it's still under investigation. But even this mantra is a lie, since Bush had no problem commenting on another equally serious case under investigation when he told Brit Hume on a Fox news cheerleading interview Wednesday, that he believed Tom Delay was innocent, weeks before his trial.
But where the hell are the Democrats on this? After Novak's speech implicating Bush they should be all over the media and the special prosecutor to supeona the President and get to the bottem of this treachery. Maybe the harsh reality is the Demos just don't have what it takes to govern or stand up to this corrupt administration?
This President and his one party government consistently put their political power above the law and they are not held accountable for it by anybody. Least of all the pathetic red state voters responsible for this lawless and dishonest administration.

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Even though I'm a lifelong Democrat; I've been pretty discouraged lately with the party and it's invisible leaders. Maybe it's the media fault? They just don't give Democrat's critiques of the Bush administration much air play and they seem to parrot the Republican talking points as the Democrat's views, such as "cut and run" for the Demo's Iraq strategy. I've never heard one Demo ever say they were in favor of cutting and running in Iraq. But if you hear the media repeating this riduculous Republican distortion of the Demo's dissent as the opposition to Bush's "stay the course and victory is around the corner", you assume it is a Demo position.
How do the Republican's get away with this defining of the political debate in their terms? How do they get the mainstream media to go along with them? I guess the two big reasons are the Republican's are in power, and they have accused the mainstream media so long of having a liberal bias, the network news shows and even the New York Times bend over backwards to present Republican political propaganda as if it's the legitimate other side of any issue that supports Democrat's facts.
Never has this strategy of defining the debate been more effective or clear then in the administration's defense of their obvious and factual incompetence in waging this war of choice in Iraq. Billions of tax dollars down the drain, thousands of Americans dead and wounded, thousands of innocent Iraqis blown to shreds, and worst of all ,an increased threat of terrorism and anti -American hatred in the Middle East and around the world. Even the bi-partisan 9/11 committee just relaesed a report summary that we are not any safer at home now !........this is what Bush's "staying the course" in Iraq means. Yet if the Demo's question this reality and seek an alternative, they are accused of not supporting the troops or the Iraqi's. So, it's come down to this in the debate. You are not supporting the soldiers unless you support their right to die for "staying the course". How absurd is this? How does Bush get away with it?

An interesting offshoot of this "stay the course" American policy in Iraq and the anti-American sentiment that it is reinforcing in the world is the turning off of international consumers to buying brand America. A survey of 8,000 international consumers released by Global Market Institute of Seattle stated that one third of international consumers are viewing America's most famous brands in the global market place as negative based on our foreign policy. Brands the survey placed at risk of losing considerable international sales due to Bush's foreign policy are Marlboro, AOL, McDonalds, American and United Airlines, General Motors, Mattel, Chevron and even Starbucks to name a few. And that's not all, the businesses in the travel industry are losing billions as tourists stay away from the US, Jet Blue, Priceline.com, Host Marriot, rental car companies and even restraunt's such as Morton's steakhouses are feeling the effects.
How amazing would this be, if this loss of international business due to Bush's incompetent foreign policy and destruction of America's once great image (probably at an all time high after 9/11), turned out to be his downfall? What if it dawned on these corporate big wigs that the tax breaks and loosening of the environmental rules Bush did for them as payback for campaign finance support wasn't worth the international business they are losing due to his incompetence, and destruction of brand America. Wow, would that be political karma.