Oops, I oversleep and arrive late to Night No. 2. I'm currently in the lobby, watching the live-feed from the theater, blogging away, listening with one ear and typing with... the other...? Well, idioms aside, the actual impeachment proceedings are well under way. A very funny woman with shortish blond hair is talking about conspiracy and fraud, in the legal sense. "Outright lies, half-truths... technically true but designed to deceive," she lists as various equally legally interesting aspects of fraud. Fraud-options, I guess.
Meaning: If Bush and Cheney implied Saddam had WMDs and Saddam didn't, then Bush and Cheney committed fraud. They cannot later claim, "oh, I didn't know." People are giggling, because the woman is funny. (I'll find her name in a sec.)
Now a witness is speaking to her about the timing of the intent to go to war with Saddam (dating back to Cheney's Defense Dept. under Bush I).
--- BREAKIND NEWS I just saw thanks to Google's newsreader - Pakistan's highest court has just dismissed challenges to president/dictator Musharraf's running for election again. Damn, yo. ---
Okay, back to impeaching: Neo-con ideology dates back to the Vietnam and Cold Wars, when "realist imperialists" and neo-cons split over the issue of policing the larger world: In short, neo-cons wanted to overthrow "bad guys," including eventually Saddam, while realists wanted to avoid getting entangled in lots of little wars that could of course wreck things in America.
Wow. Rummy signed, along with various other policy-influencers, an open letter to Bill Clinton advising him to go after Saddam. And that blasted Richard Perle!
Let me post this and get the night's blogging started...
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