Reply #68: I suspect this is what Libby meant by the "aspens turning in clusters...

[Peace Patriot]

...because their "roots are connected," and that Judith Miller should "come back to work--and life"--to cover stories like the Iranian nuke program and biological threats. He may be going to take the "fall" for the Bush Cartel (will be vacationing, like she did, in jail), but the WMD planting op has been reborn and has been re-directed to Iran (he is telling her)? Nukes or bios will be found maybe crossing the Iran-Iraq border, and evidence manufactured that they originated in Iraq? All their skins will be saved and they'll have a new war? Just a guess. He says three or four times in the letter that he wants her to testify, and always has (uh-huh). It feels like a deal has been made to stop the investigation from going any further (getting to the root of it--the WMD-planting plot); Libby will do time; Cheney maybe will resign ("unindicted co-conspirator") and go to Halliburton Heaven; and Miller and the WMD propagandists will be vindicated in the end (or so Libby thinks) by whatever they have cooked up by way of new WMD "finds" to keep control of Iraq and get control of Iran.

I don't at all buy into any dissing of the American people or calling them "sheeple." They have opposed this war in big numbers since before the invasion (58%, Feb. '03--even before all the lies were exposed--it's over 70% today)--as well as hugely opposing torture "under any circumstances" (63%, May '04) and every other Bush policy. They just have no power. They have been DISENFRANCHISED, literally. Two far rightwing Bushite corporations now control the tabulation of the votes with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--a coup they achieved in 2001-2004 period. I think American voters don't buy the Bush Cartel's crap, never did, and tried to oust them--and flocked to the Dem Party and the polls to do so (for instance, Dems blew Bushites away in new voter reg in 2004, nearly 60/40), but got bushwhacked by the new, extremely hackable electronic voting systems (one hacker, a couple of minutes, leaving no trace), bipartisan corruption in the billion-dollar electronic voting boondoggle, and corruption/collusion in the Dem War Party faction.

To change any of this, we have to throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'! A must do. First priority.

Long term project, I'm afraid, at the state/local level; doable but not easily. And, in the meanwhile, closely monitor current and '06/'08 elections, gather statistical evidence, challenge elections, educate the good election officials, purge the corrupt, etc.

(See www.votersunite.org, and www.UScountvotes.org.)