It's been a while...

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, but sometimes I just have to step away. There is too much corruption, and rather than get discouraged and throw up my hands in despair, I lay low for a while until my threshold for pain is restored. ;-)

So, here is a link that I think is imperative for you to read. It's about the yellow cake uranium from Niger, and why it doesn't mean a hoot because Iraq already had a whole lotta uranium already - uranium signed and sealed by Bush Sr. himself, lying around. No kidding.

It also talks about just what it takes to have enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb, and how it would take a whole lotta time and a whole lotta patience to get even a little bit of weapons grade uranium out of yellow cake. The yellow cake was not only a lie, it was a red herring, designed to scare the pants off the American people but about as relevant to Hussein's actually seeking out nuclear weapons as legitimacy is to the Bush administration.

In another, completely unrelated note: while I know a lot of you are waiting with an anxious heart to hear exactly what Fitzgerald will do, let me remind you why revealing Plame matters. Not only does it endanger anyone who has ever come into contact with Valerie Plame and call their alliances into question, it also means that her entire network has been compromised, from the business fronts on down.

Also, as Larry Johnson asks, in this time when it's clear our country needs more human spies rather than technology, why anyone would dare to volunteer to spy or aid us, when it's clear they could potentially be fodder for the political machine? What kind of message does it send to all the other brave souls from the intelligence community that are out in the field, trying to serve America to the best of their ability while endangering their lives?

It seems to me the reoccurring theme for the Bush Administration is Ask Me No Questions And I Will Tell You No Lies. While that's fine in the playground, the world we live in today can't afford it. What kind of world leader refuses to see the truth, and is willing to endanger anyone who dares to disagree? The Bush kind, unfortunately. It's time we as Americans raised the level of expectations we place upon our political represenatives. And really, why would anyone *want* to have a beer with Bush, anyway?

Hopefully next time America will know better. The only way to negotiate through the treacherous waters which is the world today is with eyes wide open and a willingness to learn and grow. Those with a penchant for throwing temper tantrums need not apply.