Reply #8: This doesn't name names, per se, but it's an interesting read

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PROPHET TALK: BUSH, SO CRISPY TOAST?

Thursday, October 20, 2005

President George Bush's father, George Bush, Sr, cultivated all the right people and moved in the most powerful circles - from diplomat, to CIA head, to vice president and then president. With so much power and almost institutionalized good will, the current plight of George "W" Bush - as he waits for the purported indictments of "special prosecutor" Patrick J. Fitzgerald - is almost incomprehensible.

Ruling elites are instinctively protective, remembering there are less of them, and acting accordingly. They must hate the kind of show that it is unfolding right now in Washington DC, and yet because it is, they must consider it necessary. If "W" had been successful with his war, or wrapped it up sooner or settled for some modest gains and then brought 'em home, he would probably not be facing what he is now. Perhaps there is something to the speculation that "W" doesn't always think clearly. More likely however is that this man with a great deal of poise and self-confidence but little book-learning and even less disciplined intellect simply allowed himself to be led astray by those around him. They include, of course, the vice-president himself, Dick Cheney and others. Even, yes, the so-called Israel lobby, "neocons" Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perleman and others who are said to have had an enormous impact on the president and now - according to a generous helping of vituperative 'Net analysis - stand ready to abandon him, the war effort and the crumbling economy at a moment's notice.

As he presides over the decaying reputation of what once was one of America's most successful dynastic families, it must be coming clear to Bush if he will just let it, what kind of trouble he is truly in. But maybe it still is not clear because "W" is a rigid guy, as most former drinkers are. For now he remains the picture of a confident commander, chin up, shoulder's squared, determined not to give an inch or utter an apology. The fine international journalist Georgie Anne Geyer wrote recently of Bush's speech at the invitation of the National Endowment for Democracy, as follows, "The sense of the long and deadly serious speech was that the United States had no responsibility for any of this. 'No act of ours invited the rage of the killers, and no concession, bribe or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder. We will never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory.' Wow!"

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http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/134/2665/2005-10-20.asp?wid=134&nid=2665