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the poor, and maybe some ashes on the head, following upon a full disclosure book with proceeds to the families of slaughtered Iraqis.
I don't believe in capital punishment (it truncates Karma, and doubles the evil when it comes back, in my opinion), or jail, for that matter. I believe in recompense. It's better for us all.
I think Judith Miller is the height of Bushism--chronic dishonesty wedded with mediocrity. Bushites are jealous of honest, intelligent, highly skilled, hard-working people who truly believe in something, and who sacrifice for their ideals of truth, or democracy, or honor, or whatever they believe in. Bushites--as a generalization--are incapable of holding ideals. They seek cheap ways to look good, and to pretend that they believe in something. They are often glib, but if you listen for a while you begin to hear this strange monotone, as if they were reciting other peoples' thoughts. They often say things that sound irrational, not based in any evidence, nor in wisdom, nor in good policy, not founded in anything solid, and are completely lacking in any understanding of history or humankind's cultural development. And when they observe people who do have integrity, who do have a solid foundation and real beliefs, and who speak truly from their hearts, souls and intellects, the Bushites hate them. They hate them more than anything.
Judith Miller vs. Valerie Plame. Someone who has faked it all her life, vs. someone with real accomplishments and dedication.
George Bush vs. Joseph Wilson. A coward, a puppet, propped up all his life by his name and his riches, never accomplished anything positive, everything destructive--of lives, of our country and its Constitution, of our progressive culture; careless, callous, thick-headed and overly self-regarding. Vs., a man of courage, willing to take on a highly dangerous regime, a dedicated public servant who finds all his own ideals and sense of what is honorable being sullied, and acts to correct it, and does so with energy and intelligence.
It's quite interesting to me to read Wilson's remarks on Miller. He talks of her as "collateral damage" in the Bush dissent-smashing machine, comparable to the injury to his wife. That is quite generous, it seems to me, even gallant. He's not interested in piling on Miller--however wrong and criminal she has been. He wants justice; he wants the highest perps, the masterminds, disempowered and exposed for what they are.
What contrasts!
There are, of course, the Darth Vader Bushites, the ones with twisted intellects and the very greedy. They, too, are glib, and they, too, believe in nothing, in my opinion--except how to create and exploit opportunities for grand-scale looting. They are opportunistic Nazis; their goal is profit, not social transformation; greed trumps ideology every time. They are not into building anything, not even a fascist state. They have no interest in governing. They create chaos--and break down and destroy structures of accountability--in order to steal people blind. And their thin-brained, thin-souled followers--the ones who seem like they are always faking it; the incompetents, the mediocre, the non-solid people--are just dupes of these greedy bastards. A few Bushites--the neocons--have an agenda, for sure, but I think they, too, are just being used by the war profiteers and the global corporate predators, as are any of the rightwing Christians who might be sincere (not the leaders, who are simply into power or money).
Judith Miller falls somewhere in between a mediocre follower and a neo-con dupe. She is so hollow! It's as if she's been lying for the war profiteers for so long that she has no center any more. And I think she's very typical of those who have sold their souls to the Bush Cartel. Incredible things come out of her mouth--for instance, that she's a journalist protecting her source. How can she believe such tripe? Well, she may have come to believe her own lies. Who knows?
Anyway, I see her as loathing Valerie Plame, and being utterly disdainful of Plame's lifelong achievements. Miller couldn't even write a book without being guided through the subject by a germ warfare expert, David Kelly. Glib, exploitative, empty. Like Bushism in general.
And if she wants to develop a soul, she will have to do a gentle but lifelong penance, if she can ever recognize what she has done as wrong.
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