Reply #2: Sadly, he may prove to be all too human. [View All]

[Bucky]

Armitage may have burned out on their reckless adventurism, but the fact that he hasn't spoken out or slapped them around much in the past two years raises the possibility that he knows he's vulnerable on something. If he leaked Plames name, he's a criminal.

Despite being a conservative, like Powell Armitage is a basically honorable man whose bad political judgment led him to fall into a den of neocon theives. Like Powell, he passed up his chance to speak out and stop their tossing away American and Iraqi lives in a rush for oil and dickless posturing. He worked with them and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they made sure that he got his hands dirty while he was in with them.

I'm not saying it's not a frame up, but I think the more likely possibility is that after working with Cheney and Rumsfeld & company for four years, it's hard not to be complicit in lots of immoral, illegal, and corrupt activities. A team player like Armitage would probably swallow down his reservations and common sense and play along with whatever shit they cooked up.

In fact, I think we know already that he did that somewhat on the Iraq invasion. The moreal of this story is "You lay down with dogs; you get fleas."