Chris Floyd: Tool Time: Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On

[babylonsister]

Tool Time: Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On
Written by Chris Floyd
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

I.

Karl Rove has resigned, and for the moment that seems like good news — although given the history and M.O. of the Bush gang, it will probably lead to something worse in one way or another. For example, look how much better things are now that Don Rumsfeld has gone! We've progressed from his last-days, panicky memos about curtailing the war (while spinning it as a victory) to a full-bore, wide-open escalation of the conflict which the chief surger, Gen. David Petraeus, tells us could last for 10 more years. Or for another, even more glaring example, look how thing s improved at the Justice Department after John Ashcroft was replaced by Alberto Gonzales. Colin Powell was a weak and pathetic bagman, whoring his media-inflated prestige to sell a war he didn't believe in — but aren't things so much better with Condi Rice in charge at State?

No, if there's one rule of thumb that consistently applies to the Bush Gang, it's this: every move they make — whether by choice or forced by events — makes matters worse. So while we all wait for the other shoe to drop on Rove's resignation — i.e., the real reason behind his sudden bug-out — the Bush Gang will doubtless be putting the boot in somewhere else.

II.

But of course, for all the media oxygen it has consumed — and will continue to consume — Rove's departure is small potatoes. Despite his vaunted "genius" for political skulduggery, in the end Rove too is a drab factotum, a bagman, a greasy cog in a vast machine that will keep grinding on, killing and corrupting, without him. (Assuming that Rove is actually stepping away from the machine, which is most unlikely.) Stories of far greater significance than the slinking exit of a dirt-smeared toady have appeared in the last two days — items far more revelatory of the hellish world that the porcine minion has helped make on behalf of his masters.

The boiling core of this hell is Iraq. Stories breaking while Rove and Bush were puddling up on the White House lawn revealed a new abyss of criminality in the war crime that the tearful tyrant and his henchman have engendered: the Mafia running guns to Bush's favored extremist factions in Iraq. As the Guardian reports, Italian anti-Mafia police, tracking down a drug deal, instead came across shipment of 105,000 AK-47s procured by the underworld for their paying client: the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The Ministry said the guns were intended for its security forces — i.e., extremist sectarian militias in government drag. The Pentagon denied knowledge of the Mafia guns, but the middleman for the deal was a Dubai company with "scores of supply and service contracts for the U.S. occupation," the Guardian reported. The company, "citing the names of 'friends' in top U.S. military ranks in Iraq," said it had written approval from the Pentagon authorizing it "to do all kinds of business."

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http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2177/1/

[Solly Mack]

1. just because the bloom falls off don't make the plant dead

gotta get the roots...

[babylonsister]

2. The bloom? And how do we get to those roots, pray tell?

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

3. Well, he is called turd blossom :)

You expose the roots and then rip them out

Gotta tell the truth about Bush and the rest - regardless of who goes down as well. Regardless of how painful. ...and then put them on trial.

Force Americans to deal with it - whether they like it or not.


Course, not gonna happen so...