10/21/2007

What did they know, and when did they know it?

Not sure what to believe in this whole saga. I just smell something "funny".
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Anonymous said...

Yah you are right that funny smell is coming from Washington D.C.
For all the people involved they all should have listened to their parents,tell the truth it never changes. Yes it is a bad thing that she got outed, but is it any better that all the media hype that followed. Now she is all to happy to point finger at people, it sells books. Kinda convinent to be having and interview on 60 minutes, what a couple of days before her book is to hit the stores.
media run amuck is a huge problem....every one has an agenda, but all the lines are getting blurred in the process. Every one is right every one is wrong, just point your finger at some one else. It is so much easier then telling the truth.

1:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Any actions that Valerie Plame or "Ambassador" Wilson take is money-motivated posturing.

She probably has a book coming out, and this will boost sales. We saw this particular trend throughout 2004.

Today's major media -- putting profits above national security, one hit piece at a time.

The tragedy is that Plame's actual status may well be classified. Therefore, if she is lying, there is no one who can refute her claims. If she is telling the truth, then prosecution reveals classified info.

Either way, the CIA has ethically challenged personnel, and faulty personnel recruiting. I blame it on Senator Frank Church, and his band of merry Congresscritters who gutted the CIA.

Pay no attention to Plame. Anything she says is unverifiable. She is in a position to make money from whatever she peddles.

Furthermore, anytime the Plame / Wilson sh**bags open their mouths, the Democrat party is in a position to make money from the leftist twits that now own the party.

Such is the state of play in today's Amerikkka. Today's Copperheads enshrine power at any price, and distract attention from their powermad behaviors by claiming that the Republicans are doing it.

I sure hope the Baby Boomers leave public life soon. We need real adults representing us in Washington, and in every state capital (Go Governor Jindal!), and in every county, city and town.

2:09 PM
Pyrosapien said...

How is it that the Baby Boomers ended up having so many problems? Did the greatest generation drop the ball in raising their kids? Are the Baby Boomers some type of casualty of the war? Was the WWII generation to easy on their kids after coming home from the war? Did the university system become totally corrupted after the war?

5:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Pyro,

I suspect that the prolonged absence of fathers from families during WW2 contributed substantially. The centralization of the state (an outgrowth of WW2) no doubt helped.

There was also quite a bit of angst in the late 1940's and 1950's about kids and (a new, market-tested category) teen-agers. "Rebel Without a Cause" provides a thumbnail sketch of it.

I would be unsurprised if various ideologues (some American Communist party members, some American aristocrats) were undermining established traditions.

Remember, the leaders of the Baby Boomers were not Baby Boomers -- they were born too late to fight in WW2, but too soon to be post-war babies.

Finally, the influence of European philosophy (existentialism, for example) and the (flawed) translation of Oriental religions to the US helped as well.

Ironies abound. The US was at a height of power relative to the rest of the devastated industrial world. Yet, we lost our confidence to the point of having too many of the people born between 1930 and 1960 reject their heritage and their birthright.

*sigh*

11:50 PM

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