It appears that Dubya’s administration is going to get a crash course in fighting a war on more than a single front. But probably not the way his hawkish advisors were hoping. Multiple events are converging that could potentially rock the present administration as viciously as Watergate did the Nixon administration.
First, Dennis Kucinich (D – Ohio and presidential candidate) demands full disclosure of the allegedly staged rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch.
Second, Jim Lobe reports on the controversy over the Bush administration’s veracity—or lack thereof—with regard to the evidence of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As Lobe points out, you know the pot’s boiling over “when all three major US newsweeklies… run major features on the same day on possible government lying… and when the two most important outlets of neo-conservative opinion… come out on the same days with lead editorials spluttering outrage about suggestions of government lying….”
To complete the perfect trifecta, The Guardian published an article over the weekend revealing that a secret transcript indicates that both Jack Straw and Colin Powell had “privately expressed serious doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq’s banned weapons programme at the very time they were publicly trumpeting it to get UN support for a war on Iraq.” This will be historically known as the Waldorf transcript and is very damning indeed.
Stick a fork in him and turn him over—he’s done.
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