Republican NeoCon(victs) Indictments/Investigation

[academe]

Expect only more crickets and tumbleweeds.

Silence is golden...it would be nice if BOTH extremes (and their surrogates) would hold still their tongues.

[RoninX]

I don't want to say that things have been a bit quiet in this forum lately...but the only sounds have been those of crickets chirping and tumbleweeds rolling though the deserted streets.

Anyway, I revive this old thread in order to note the apparent collapse of yet another of the left's cherished conspiracy theories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/wa...ref=washington



So...Armitage. Not Cheney. Not Rove. And not Bush. No skulking scheme to discredit Wilson orchestrated from the White House.

Waiting for the sound of apologies, of rash words being eaten, of backpedaling? Expect only more crickets and tumbleweeds.

Fine, I'll bite, if only to stir the pot. How does this change anything? There was never proof, as long as people keep quiet a conspiracy is essentially impossible to prove unless they are extremely sloppy. The white house continues to deny and Armitrage (sp?) continues to stay quiet.

So why should his indictment change anyone's preexisting opinion?

[Phaeton]

I hear voices; they tell me to free all the kangeroos from the zoo.

(What movies is that from. Gah!)

[Inquartata]

Because Armitage has said it was him, Fitzgerald has known it was him for years, and Armitage was no friend of the White House so-called cabal. In fact his disclosure is said to have been made while he was trying to defend Wilson's choice as investigator for the Niger connection, and shore up his credentials by adding those of his wife.

But yes, that's the sort of response I expect will prevail---rather than say, "Oh, gee, guess there was no conspiracy" it will be "Well, this doesn't prove there wasn't a conspiracy TOO, so there was one". Rather after the fashion of the CDC a few years ago, when it published its findings that none of the many studies done have shown any correlation between gun control laws and lower violent crime rates---but then had to add that it proved nothing and that "more studies were needed".

[RoninX]

Rather after the fashion of the CDC a few years ago, when it published its findings that none of the many studies done have shown any correlation between gun control laws and lower violent crime rates---but then had to add that it proved nothing and that "more studies were needed".

<sniff> is that another thread I smell? Why yes... yes it is <see new thread>

[scrapinpeg]

To answer the more pressing question...

I think it was "Good Burger," but I don't think that's the exact quote.

[jeff]

Hey, doesn't this guy count? A governor isn't exactly chopped liver you know!

Ryan gets 6 1/2 years... " George Ryan, the Republican governor whose bold clearing of Death Row won international praise but whose old-style political ways led to a sweeping federal corruption conviction, was sentenced"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...gepromo440-fea

(Not in sync with nature or recent posts, but seems to fit the thread's title nicely)