Catching hawks : The fictious case for war against Iraq was cooked up by a group in the West Wing known as the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG. It was these officials who “created the reality” that war was necessary, and who developed the talking points based on false and misleading information that the President, Vice President, then-Sec. of State Colin Powell and others used to convince the Congress and great swathes of the American people that war in Iraq was necessary.
There cannot be any greater breach of trust than that of a government wasting its country’s blood and treasure on war of whim – and yet that’s what this group of traitors did. And like all traitors, they assumed they would never get caught.
Now it appears that the special prosecutor in looking into the Bush CIA Leak may be sniffing around the WHIG’s activities, in particular as it relates to Vice President Dick Cheney, the group’s de facto head:
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say… The investigation into who leaked the officer’s name to reporters has now turned toward a little known cabal of administration hawks known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which came together in August 2002 to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. WHIG was founded by Bush chief of staff Andrew Card and operated out of the Vice President’s office…
The group’s members included Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, Bush advisor Karen Hughes, Senior Advisor to the Vice President Mary Matalin, Deputy Director of Communications James Wilkinson, Assistant to the President and Legislative Liaison Nicholas Calio, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby – Chief of Staff to the Vice President and co-author of the Administration’s pre-emptive strike policy.
It’s standard procedure in a public corruption investigation to start at the bottom and force less senior suspects to “flip” on their bosses. If any of the lesser WHIG members – or their assistants – has been successfully flipped, the Bush CIA Leak scandal could make Watergate look like a misdemeanor.
WHIGging out…how fun. All of these traitors should be tarred and wrapped in MSM newspapers, and sent off into Times Square to be seen by the rest of the world as what they truly are: stupid, greedy, inane, homicidal, anal, physically unattractive, ego/power-tripping, unAmaericans. Imagine James Carvell is married to one of them, too. Not that he’s any hunk, but at least he should know better than to sleep among the worst enemies this nation has ever known.
May they all rot in the hell known as the GOP…GENOCIDE, OIL, PROFITEERING.
VOTE REPUBLICAN! SIG HEIL!
Bastards.
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