USING THE BUSH STANDARD, HE'S A TRAITOR: By Larry Johnson

[kpete]

Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Using the Bush Standard, He's a Traitor
by
Larry C Johnson

There he goes again. The Leaker in Chief shooting his mouth off and compromising a national security asset in order to win domestic political advantage. Remember when U.S. military forces whacked the terrorist Zarqawi? Well, the President, eager to burnish his image with the American people, rushed to the microphones where he spilled Top Secret beans by identifying the head of the top secret terrorist unit at Fort Bragg. According to a recent article in Newsweek:

No one would have mentioned his name at all if President George W. Bush hadn't singled him out in public. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, West Point '76, is not someone the Army likes to talk about. He isn't even listed in the directory at Fort Bragg, N.C., his home base. That's not because McChrystal has done anything wrong—quite the contrary, he's one of the Army's rising stars—but because he runs the most secretive force in the U.S. military. That is the Joint Special Operations Command, the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops" guys who captured Saddam Hussein and targeted Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. . . .

After the Zarqawi strike, multinational forces spokesman Gen. Bill Caldwell refused to comment on JSOC's role, saying, "We don't talk about when special operating forces are involved." But when Bush revealed to reporters that it was McChrystal's Special Ops teams that had found Zarqawi, Caldwell had to gulp and say (to laughter), "If the president of the United States said it was, then I'm sure it was."

Way to go George. And we're suppose to take you seriously when you cry about leaks? Because you live in a big glass house I suggest you think twice before tossing any more rocks at the New York Times.

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/using_the_bush_.html

[Sydnie]

1. Go get 'em Larry!

I asgree with that completely.

[ginnyinWI]

2. when the president does it, it's not a leak?

Another example of a double standard. If they do it, it's just fine with their base. If anybody else does it, say the NYT, by putting out information that is already out there and does no harm, then it's treason.

Are enough people going to get wise to the hypocrisy in time for the election? Will enough Dems stand up and point it out? They've been doing a good job on left-wing radio today--we must keep it up!

[samsingh]

3. bush is a traitor using any standard.

as are the people who support him.

[motocicleta]

4. ding ding ding ding ding!

We have a winna!

Until all traitors are penalized for their crimes, this country will not recover its former dignity.

[autorank]

5. We're in serious territory here. This is utterly devastating. #2 in

the last week.

He charges the NYT with treasonous behavior through his surrogates for their reports on financial snooping

BUT

The WH released similar information a while ago.

&

He attacks the press in the larger sphere for impeding the war effort by their reporting "secrets'

BUT

He has this bonehead maneuver on the record.

He's a real piece of work, unraveling before our very eyes, fiddling around while the world burns.
Make no mistake, these are two HUGE errors, huge.

And what an utter ingrate...the NYT hyped his war with gusto and flair...and look what they get,
called traitors. Nobody will want to do any business with him, he's a lune, doesn't even
understand the basics of "tit for tat." (And, after all, "It's a tit for tat world")

This type of erratic behavior makes me think that there is something going on behind the scenes that
would just blow us away. But we're mere minions, "the diggers," who have no right to know what
they're talking about at the head table.

[hootinholler]

6. Except Caldwell was a know entity...

It was announced when he took command of JSOC.

Not that the sheeple will know that, but, there are plenty of things * has done to be pissed about. We don't need to invent them.

-Hoot

7. Go Larry

Nunquam non paratus (Never unprepared)