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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (23375)	10/21/2003 12:15:07 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93284

<font color=brown>Coverup Cheney style:</font> Why Condi and Not Rummy? Last week BushCo decided to appoint the National Security Adviser to the President to oversee U.S. rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As head of the Iraq Stabilization Group, Condoleezza Rice will now be responsible for disbursing huge amounts of U.S. funds slated for the rebuilding of those war-torn countries' infrastructures. But why did they decide to scoot that particular task out from under our Secretary of Defense and suddenly hand it over to the National Security Adviser? After all, hadn't Rummy proven himself to be very efficient with his Shock n' Awe "cakewalk" against the once omnipotent Saddam Hussein? It's not as if Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had done anything in particular to displease Vice-Emperor Cheney. It is much more likely that this sudden transfer of responsibilities was a pre-emptive measure. Apparently, this major shift of power from Rummy to Condi wasn't exactly to "fix" anything, at least not in the normal sense of fixing something that's broken. So - "Why Condy and not Rummy?" It's because someone in the Bush Administration has noticed that Congress is beginning to wonder about what little has been accomplished thus far regarding the rebuilding effort in the two countries involved. The American public is finally wising up and beginning to push for Congress to check the "books" as to where all that "rebuilding" cash has gone. That's why "Condi and not Rummy"... it may be attributed to the sole fact that the National Security Adviser to the President is automatically exempted from Congressional Oversight. By shifting the responsibilities to Ms. Rice's office, there'll be no chance that a tell-tale money trail will be left for anyone to follow. Is there anyone who believes that she may have been awarded the rebuilding position in recognition for past exemplary performance as National Security Adviser? To the contrary, it's more easily argued that she's dangerously ineffective as Security Adviser. It was, after all, on her watch that the prophetic August 26, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing ("PDB") got shuffled to the bottom of Bush's "Things to Do" list. That's the historic briefing which, in press conferences and interviews after 9/11, she'd call "too vague" to foresee any imminent terrorist danger. Actually, that PDB had directly predicted the high probability that the al-Qaeda would soon highjack airliners and attack the U.S. Had she effectively accomplished the one simple task spoon-feeding Dubya that PDB's "bottom-line," she likely could have prevented over 3,000 innocent Americans from dying on 9/11/01. I was curious as to why Condi was never hauled before the 9/11 Congressional committee to testify about why she had apparently missed shoving that report under Dubya's nose, so I did a little research and turned up the fact that as National Security Adviser, she is automatically exempt from ever having to answer to Congress. For anything. Because of her snafu, it is likely that America was hit with the most deadly terrorist event in its history. And as a reward, BushCo has granted her the honor and responsibility of administering billions of U.S. dollars in overseas ventures that were arguably necessitated because of her mistake! How brilliant is that? While at first glance this appears to be a most bizarre twist from normal bureaucratic reasons for promoting governmental Administrative personnel, there appears to actually be a method to their madness. Unlike the Secretary of Defense's position, the high office of National Security Adviser will now have the ability to rout the lion's share of monies slated for the rebuilding of Iraqi and Afghani infrastructure to virtually anywhere it pleases without any worry of ever being grilled as to where all that cash might have vanished. She can just mark "TOP SECRET" across all of the invoices, and black out the who, what, when, where, and why, pertaining to the funds. So when someone finally checks to see where all that money ended up (and they will), it'll appear as if we've piped gold bullion directly down a black hole. All in the name of "National Security." That Ms. Rice hasn't uncovered whom, within her own White House, was reckless enough to have leaked a valued CIA undercover agent's name and personal data is proof positive that she's remains incredibly inept as a U.S. National Security Adviser to the President. But despite that fact, Condi is somehow still their best choice to oversee the national security of both Iraq and Afghanistan. The irony is that her new overseas duties will leave her with even less time to aid the President in finding who leaked the cover of the CIA's top WMD expert in Iraq. However, since Hussein's believed to have destroyed his entire WMD stockpile during Desert Storm anyway, Ms. Plame's undercover weapons expertise in that field wasn't ever really necessary since then, was it? We're being assured that John "What anthrax killer?" Ashcroft is on the job to "take care" of that little White House leak problem before too much longer. That means Condi will be freed-up to visit her newly assigned foreign countries to better exert her legendary hands-off approach to their "national security" instead of ours. I feel safer already. But don't expect her Iraq Stabilization Group to project an exit-strategy timeline anytime soon. That'll no doubt take much longer than originally anticipated, now that BushCo's got their defense contractors' pesky paper trail problems covered. buzzflash.com <font color=brown>This explains why Condaleeza and Rumsfeld both insist that nothing of substance has changed</font> TP