EW, agree that the Dems still do not seem to grasp the full nature of the threat embodied by Bush and Cheney; the military and IC appear to have a better grasp than Congress.

The idea that Bush and/or Cheney might order rogue, red flag operations (almost certainly involving nuclear warheads) would be consistent with prior ‘rogue’ actions like subverting customary chains of command. (Evidence? DoJ, FISA, Geneva Conventions, and so on…)

Their obsession with Iranian nuclear targets is consistent with Wm Ockham’s timeline data: 2003: (1) Iran stops making nuclear weapons, (2)Valerie Plame is ‘outed’. Bush and Cheney got: (1) payback for Wilson’s OpEd, plus (2) an IC blinded with respect to Iranian capabilities.
The CIA employee tasked with tracking Iranian nuclear development would be a prime target for anyone who wanted to control information about Iranian nuclear plans; the fact that Wilson’s OpEd was in the NYT must have seemed like confirmation to them that the IC was out to undercut their objectives to attack Iran.

A retrovirus succeeds by imitating familiarity. It arrives disguised as a normal cell. Bush seemed like ’such a normal guy’ to millions of Americans. But just because something arrives disguised doesn’t absolve anyone of willful blindness in ignoring a threat.

Hat tip to phred for coherence.
But I still have a question. Did 6 nukes go missing in August? Or was it 5? Because we only hear of 5 accounted for.
Who’s counting…?

McConnell was sworn in mid-February 07, the month that Fallon refused to send a third carrier to the Gulf. Two months earlier, Gen. Peter Pace prepared the groundwork for Fallon when he made a determined that put a wrench in Bu$hCheney desires for aggression against Iran. Pace was fired; Fallon, Pace, and McConnell may not get WH Christmas cards this year.

The kabuki and silent knife-fighting appear to be taking a toll: Bush looked dreadful in that NIE presser. But Bush, Cheney, and the neocons are relentless. True Believers can’t tolerate the humiliation or shame of giving up, nor of losing. John Dean was right; Nixon realized when the game was over; Bu$hCheney won’t.

Agree with whoever assessed that Iran and Putin are ascending, and that Sun Tzu had it right. Putin and the Chinese may have a more accurate view of Bush (and Cheney) than Congress. After all, Putin and the Chinese aren’t blinded by sentiment. But an unsentimental view of their crimes would necessitate impeachment. If these things were true, would missing warheads, or confirmation of a rogue ‘red flag’ operation involving nuclear attack, be enough to merit a Congressional re-think about impeachment? If not, why not?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00727.html

One of my take-aways from all of this is something that I think the Founders would have been Proud to hear shouted back at them 230 years distant – that We checked it out during the Bush-Neocon Ideology Plague, and Confirmed that OUR Constitution, well-tended, Keeps Tyranny in Remission!

Wrestling control back from the Ideological Hijackers that Cravenly used the Shock of 911 to establish themselves above Legislative Oversight and Judicial Review has been a ‘close run thing,’ and accomplished only through the efforts of many, many good Americans – all in Service to the Rule of Law.

Like abused kids, it will take US a while to realize there was nothing wrong with US to begin with – it’s only that Bush and Cheney said so, and then they didn’t allow anyone else to check or balance them.

Let the real hero be the Rule of Law, and we can turn this near disaster into a Strengthening Story to pass down through the Ages to Our decendents…joining Our Forefathers in knowing what it means to Almost Lose Living as Free Citizens of a Free Country.

But, I’ll agree, they don’t want to lose out on dinner ; )

Hmmm, I’ve got no idea what comes next. Evidently there are those of the opinion that painting Cheney into a corner is imminently dangerous and others who think his time is up with the release of the NIE. My preference, obviously, is impeachment. It’s the only way to shut this down for sure. I’m just hoping those with influence, whoever they may be, are successful at keeping things in check. But, I definitely feel that the American public is being held hostage. I just wish I knew why.

With regard to EDs specifically, while statespersonlike restraint is certainly a major component of their tragic flaw portfolio, I never quite bought that it’s the whole of it. As I have remarked more than once previously, ever since Pelosi came in there has been a sense that something very very large must be hanging over somebody’s head, and more and more it’s felt like the threatened party is not the EDs themselves, but rather the American people as a whole. I.e. the EDs are frozen in place meaningful-remedies-wise because PNAC is holding us all hostage. Hostage to what, exactly, has never been clear; leading contenders for that have been US economy crash, false flag attack, and/or suspension of the Constitution followed by dictatorship. An Iran attack would seem to fit the scenario better than any of those. So from where I sit, that all seems to fit with phred’s hypothesis too.

Hmmm.

With WordPress, you write a page instead of a post when you want a static presence for said content.

The problem with this site design, among other things, is there is no sidebar navigation where such things as links to static pages would appear. There’s no place for archives and there’s no navigation between blogs, from earliest to latest.

NIE timeline additions? I’m sure there’s loads more to add. The research monkeys are on the case and kicking bottom.

Emphasis mine. Suppose you meant ‘posts’ not ‘blogs’. Bingo.