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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-02-03...Where's My Yellowcake?! Part II
John Huang2; Aquamarine; Billie | John Huang2

Posted on 10/01/2003 10:48:18 PM PDT by Aquamarine



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Where's My Yellowcake?! Part II

by JohnHuang2


I'd have finished this essay sooner if it weren't for all the dang interruptions. Some weirdo calling himself "Anonymous Senior Administration Official" kept ringing my phone off the hook, peddling some CIA agent's name whose hubby (can't recall exactly) traveled to Africa looking for yellowcake sales receipts with Saddam's signature, or some such...anybody know anything about this? At first I thought it was some nutty new sales pitch by some nutty telemarketer trying to beat the Wednesday 'Do-Not-Call List' deadline. 'Keep it up , buddy,' I told the caller, 'and I'll have the Feds frog-march ya out of that house in handcuffs!' Then I thought maybe it's that South African businessman who keeps clogging my email with some incredible business proposition.
Okay, okay...I'll confess: There were no phone calls. I made it up. I think I was probably carried away by the spirit of the moment (to borrow a line).
So what's the media fuss all about this time?
First, chalk this whole thing up as more bad luck for Democrats. Just as Bush was beginning to 'slip' in polls, Bang! out of nowhere comes a "scandal" big enough to make Bush's ratings soar.
The "growing controversy" centers on who "leaked" the super-ultra-secret identity of a covert agent everyone but Robert Novak knew wasn't a covert agent but a pencil-pusher at CIA. Covert agents need low-profile, and, for whatever reason, CIA doesn't think marrying an Ambassador is a fabulous way to lower your profile. So Valerie Plame, wife of former Clinton NSC aid Joe Wilson, was good for pencil work but not cloak and dagger. So clandestine, so deeply-concealed was the mystery of Plame working at CIA that the Washington Post claims two "Senior administration officials" tried to get a bunch of reporters interested in a 'Wife-Gets-Job-For-Hubby-In-High-Profile-Iraq-Probe' angle, but only one reporter bit. Nepotism in Washington? Say it ain't so! (By the way, CIA neither confirms nor denies the identity of covert agents. CIA confirmed Plame's identity and employment when Novak called, which shows Plame was no covert agent.)
Democrats, who complained bitterly of Starr's $60-million-dollar independent probe, demand bitterly a Starr-like $60-million-dollar independent probe.
In a bid to show they're principled and consistent, Democrats, who blast the Patriot Act as horrid abomination, say the Patriot Act is indispensable here to probe who "leaked" to the media what the media and everyone already knew. Democrats also deny politics or the looming election season has anything to do with this, just undying devotion to high-minded principles so common in Washington.
Democrats say, Reuters reports, that "if such an incident had occurred during the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Republicans who control Congress would be calling for hearings and issuing subpoenas." I might add that if such an incident had occurred during the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Democrats, adhering scrupulously to high standards of ethics, would denounce calls for hearings and issuance of subpoenas as nothing but a right-wing witch hunt or fishing expedition to discredit Bill Clinton. Indeed, were it not for minor matters like Whitewatergate, Cattlegate, Travelgate, Zippergate, Paulagate, Juanitagate, donorgate, Chinagate, Pardongate, Filegate, etc., Clinton's would be The Most Ethical Administration In Human History.
MSNBC reports, quoting a profoundly knowledgeable college professor, that "the launch of a formal (Justice Dept.) investigation could be 'a turning point in terms of public perception'" of Bush, "a point of transition which eventually seeps down to public consciousness." I can vouch for that. Indeed, when I heard the Justice Dept. had opened a probe, I sensed a change of my public perception of Bush, a point of transition that immediately seeped down to my public consciousness; then a powerful desire overcame me, an urge to vote for Dean! Kucinich! Kerry! Lieberman! Anyone but George!
Bush's vow to cooperate fully with investigators was especially damaging to my public perception. Aren't moral presidents supposed to invoke Executive Privilege, suborn perjury, obstruct justice, cover-up, delay, deny, destroy a la Clinton? I'm confused.
Incidentally, CIA requests for probes of possible leaks are so rare, the Justice Dept. gets about one a week.
What's the fallout from all this, politically? How'll this shake out? Not to be pessimistic or anything, but this 'scandal,' phony though it is, has got the element of simplicity going for it -- it's easy to grasp -- and might resonate in ways that Enron and other previous pseudo-Bush "scandals" couldn't.
Indeed, I can, in one brief sentence, wrap up the gist of this whole 'scandal':
"Senior administration officials," in an act of 'revenge' against a prominent antiwar critic, brilliantly committed felonies by disclosing to reporters, who didn't seem interested because they knew felonies weren't being committed, the ultra-secret identity of a deep-undercover CIA agent that everyone and his sister knew worked at CIA because she wasn't deep-undercover at all, just an agency analyst who, to ensure a fair and impartial probe into White House claims that Saddam sought yellowcake Uranium from Niger, pulled agency strings so that former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, an antiwar activist and her husband (but that's just a coincidence) got appointed to head up a probe so thorough and exhaustive it lasted 8 whole arduous Sweet-Mint-Tea-Sipping days "with dozens of people" in Niger, after which the good Ambassador, in a classified report submitted to appropriate authorities at the New York Times, brilliantly OUTS himself (and by extension his wife) as CIA-connected, but that's not the point because, he says, the point is that after a week of not searching for evidence to back up White House claims, he failed to find evidence to back up White House claims, which, he said, drove him to think what he fairly and impartially wanted to think all along, to wit, that Bush IS AN EVIL LIAR and SADDAM'S INNOCENT and NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
Now, try cramming that cogent one-liner on a bumper sticker ;-)
Sure, the Democrats are toasting champagne, clicking their heels over Bush's grave.
Truth is, Plame-"Gate", or whatever they're calling it, will go about as far politically as the BUSH-KNEW-ABOUT-9/11-BEFORE-9/11-BUT-DID-NOTHING-TO-STOP-IT! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Democrats were toasting champagne, clicking their heels over Bush's grave. Or the BUSH-DIDN'T-KNOW-ABOUT-9/11-BEFORE-9/11-BUT-SHOULD'VE! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Or, recall the No-Weapons-Of-Mass-Destruction-Found-In-Iraq -- BUSH LIED! "scandal" which was supposed to force Bush from office. Or, how about 16-Word-"Gate"? Or the Bush-Was-In-Bed-With-Ken-Lay-And-Enron! "scandal" that would march Bush frog-tied out of the White House in handcuffs.
By the way, under penalty of law, you must keep my secret identity -- "JohnHuang2" -- and my work here at Free Republic as spammer and 'analyst,' a secret. Got that?
Anyway, that's...
My two cents..
"JohnHuang2"











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To: Pippin
Good morning Pippin. It's good to see you're getting to spend some time here today.
61 posted on 10/02/2003 7:28:26 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: All


God Bless Our Military




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Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Mama_Bear; Dansangel; Dutchess; Aquamarine and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation's leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.
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We ask Lord, that You guide the leaders of our great country in their hour of decision. The burden that has been placed on their shoulders is overwhelming. We ask that with Your infinite wisdom You guide them gently to the right decisions.
Please give us the strength, Lord, to get through each difficult and devastating day that faces each of us and our country. Protect and guide our Military that are now being called to duty, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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OhioWfan........................son
mystery-ak..........son, husband
Gogrammy................grandson
Inspectorette...................son
Blessed American..........nephew
Slip18..........................nephew
anniegetyourgun...........nephew
Pippin....niece,nephew,loved one
Doug from Upland......son-in-law
weldgophardline.....brotherinlaw
Future Snake Eater..........cousin
WaterDragon..son-in-law,grandson
BeforeISleep...................son
The Mayor........................niece
LadyX.........................grandson
fawn796.....................nephew
ValerieUSA................2 sons
Warrior Nurse...........active duty
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Trish.......................active duty
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Mama_Bear...........2 nephews
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62 posted on 10/02/2003 7:30:46 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Calpernia
Howdy !


63 posted on 10/02/2003 7:32:44 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: ladtx
Congratulations, Grandpa.
Prayers for Ashly Elise and family.
64 posted on 10/02/2003 7:38:43 AM PDT by Diver Dave
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To: Aquamarine
The look on Laura's face is priceless!
65 posted on 10/02/2003 7:40:51 AM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Take W-04....Across America!)
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To: Aquamarine
>>>did you get knots on the side of your neck?

Yes, I had terrible aches!
66 posted on 10/02/2003 7:40:55 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: MeeknMing
My son loves that graphic.
67 posted on 10/02/2003 7:41:18 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: JulieRNR21
The look on Laura's face is priceless!

I just love that picture, wanted to use it in the essay but couldn't find a place to fit it in. Her expression says so many different things at once. lol

68 posted on 10/02/2003 7:44:55 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Calpernia
Yes, I had terrible aches!

Me too, and I lost my voice. Sounds like we had the same bug.

69 posted on 10/02/2003 7:46:03 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Calpernia
Brat! LOL!
70 posted on 10/02/2003 7:55:46 AM PDT by Pippin (Pippin: Warrior Hobbit!)
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To: Calpernia; JohnHuang2
Thanks for the ping, Cal.

John...once again, you succinctly write about this situation with your usual (and great) sense of sarcasm and whit.

We all have been doing battle on this issue with DU distruptors as well as indignant (and sometimes ignorant) FREEPERs. Here was my effort from the last two days. I had posted many links throughout the thread and made some similar points. Check it out if you get a chance or need some additional sources.

71 posted on 10/02/2003 7:56:16 AM PDT by mattdono
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To: Aquamarine
Sh!!!!!

I'm "stealing" time! HEE! HEE!

Hope you're having a great day!

72 posted on 10/02/2003 7:57:15 AM PDT by Pippin (Pippin: Warrior Hobbit!)
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To: ladtx
Congratulations on the birth of your new granddaughter!

I'll be praying for her and all your family!

73 posted on 10/02/2003 7:59:40 AM PDT by Pippin (Pippin: Warrior Hobbit!)
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To: Aquamarine; lonestar
Must have been when I sneezed on my computer. The computer viruses are really getting bad :P
74 posted on 10/02/2003 8:11:09 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Pippin
>>>Brat!

Me???? Never :))
75 posted on 10/02/2003 8:12:10 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Aquamarine; JohnHuang2
You had WAYYYYY too much fun with this one, Aqua! LOL! It is a hoot! Those frogs are the 'icing' on that yellow cake!

John, can't stop laughing! PLUS, I would HATE to have to try and read outloud that "One line" summation all in one breath!

This picture of Laura and Chirac is a keeper! I love it (doesn't it look like she's laughing 'at' him!)

76 posted on 10/02/2003 8:22:29 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Aquamarine; JohnHuang2
John....I just knew when I was hearing all the lamestreams go on and on about this yesterday that you were going to knock their spin out of the ball field... Another home run!

Aqua...fantastic job with the graphics. Love the opening post with Laura and Chirac!
77 posted on 10/02/2003 8:24:32 AM PDT by dutchess
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To: Billie; dansangel; Mama_Bear; Aquamarine; ST.LOUIE1; All
Hi lovely sistahs, brotha Wolfie and finest friends. Another great essay from our favorite resident author. And can tell sistah Aqua was "into it" The graphics are GREAT!

Busy work day but wanted to check in and say hi!
78 posted on 10/02/2003 8:26:34 AM PDT by dutchess
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To: Billie; dansangel; Mama_Bear; Aquamarine; ST.LOUIE1; All
Hi lovely sistahs, brotha Wolfie and finest friends. Another great essay from our favorite resident author. And can tell sistah Aqua was "into it" The graphics are GREAT!

Busy work day but wanted to check in and say hi!
79 posted on 10/02/2003 8:26:45 AM PDT by dutchess
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To: ladtx
Prayers being sent for little Ashley Elise. Please keep us updated.
80 posted on 10/02/2003 8:27:50 AM PDT by dutchess
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