"To think otherwise is to be willfully naive"

Why aren't bloggers of the right covering what the left hopes will turn out to be the biggest political scandal since Watergate?  "I don't think there's anything new in the story," says blogger Kevin Aylward of Wizbang!

"The traffic's been huge," beams Bob Woodward wannabe Steve Cobble (photo below) of After Downing Street on C-Span this morning, salivating at the prospect that the Bush Lied, People Died community is finally within impeaching distance of the object of its hatred -- as blogged here and here the other day. They're conducting a MoveOn-style emailing and blogging campaign to try to get the MSM to pay attention to their mantra that GW took the nation to war on false pretences.

Blogger Steve Cobble of After Downing Street thinks "It would be nice if the Washington Post would move the story from Page A18 to the front page."

Says Mr. Cobble:

This is word of blog. If you imagine the story as a carpet, there's a lot of fraying threads. This is already a story everywhere in the world except in the United States.

Who knew? He continues:

We're not calling for impeachment.  We're calling for an investigation. We do have some ideas where we think an investigation might lead, as you can guess [mischievous smile].

At least he has a sense of humor.

We can't disagree with the general sentiment of the Bush Lied, People Died folks' animated Morning-in-America logo by Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend. (Notice their sunburst turning to the left, in a counterclockwise direction, as if to turn back time to the glory days of Watergate when starry-eyed idealists brought down a Republican president.)

The Bush haters claim that GW never mentioned anything but fear of WMDs as a rationale for going to war, but as bloggerrific reader Teresa of Technicalities pointed out in several comments the other day:

The MSM in its infinite wisdom decided what to play up and what didn't play at all. There was just TONS of other information that the administration tried to present to the people . . . but the MSM wanted nothing to do with it . . .

As far as planning goes -- any country that wants to stay in existence as a country has plans to go to war with anyone considered an enemy. If you were to have access to the files at Downing Street, you'd find files on plans for war with places like North Korea, Iran, probably even Venezuela for all we know. You don't come up with plans at the very last second. They are not just a sudden inspiration from thin air. To think otherwise is to be willfully naive about how the world works. It's dangerous out there -- and the enemies want us dead and gone -- this is not an exaggeration (listen to an al-Qaeda broadcast). Personally I don't want to be the one to end up dead -- I'd prefer it to be the other guy.

We couldn't have said better ourselves.

Comments

[Dave Schuler]

Sorry for the multiples on the trackback pings. For some reason Typepad isn't responding to me when I ping.

[Teresa]

Wow - thanks Sissy! I don't rant often, it's not good for the blood pressure... guess I needed to let off a little steam on that one. *grin*

[amba]

Don't know how the heck I missed putting you on my blogroll. Red face. That's fixed.

[Sissy Willis]

Nobody's perfect. Better late than never? Thanks so much. :)

[goomp]

As a wise man said, "United we stand,divided we fall." I hope those nut cake liberals wake up and join the USA.

[Mr.Kurtz]

Thank you for the great links.

Weird, this AM I posted H.J. - 114 Iraq War Resolution, for which Kerry and many of the shriekers voted.

Amazing that Congress found all of these other reasons, many UN inspired, for going to war, that the President never even thought of, being blinded by his WMD obsession.

It still sometimes amazes me how many will walk right by the loose tiger to point at a styrofoam cup left on the ground. And they never lack for culprits to accuse of dropping it.