Vice-President Cheney sued

I have been on holiday from this log for the last week and am now glad to return for an important news item. During the last days, many important news stories have developed. It has been a good time to be thoughtful. In coming days, events will sort themselves out, I presume.

In the meantime, it seems to me proper and right that Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, have sued top Bush administration officials, including Vice-President Cheney and Karl Rove. As this case is added to that of Patrick Fitzgerald (acting as United States prosecutor), an additional light will come to be shed on the secretive machinations of the Vice-President of Torture as he sought to descredit an American patriot, Joseph Wilson. Wilson, you may recall, was sharply critical of G.W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address claim that Saddam Hussein had attempted to buy "yellow cake" from Nigeria as part of an effort to develop weapons of mass destruction. Wilson who had investigated this claim on a trip to the African nation, knew the statement to be false.

Richard Cheney, the current Vice-President, was furious over Wilson's attempts to set the record straight and allegedly sought a kind of revenge by revealing Wilson's wife as being a C.I.A. operative. The MSNBC story is linked below.

There have been many significant moments in the future demise of the G.W. Bush administration. This may be the most significant to date. It is especially welcome as it brings new troubles for R. Cheney, the man most unwanted in the Oval Office chair. With Cheney removed, the possibility for a suitable replacement for the to-be-gone Presidency of Bush the Lesser (as Arundhati Roy has called G. W. Bush), will increase.

A new honesty is being born in America. This -- even amidst dark times -- is cause for rejoicing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071306Y.shtml