This is the Age of Injustice

[BurtWorm]

These are times that truly try our souls, when the worst are not only full of passionate intensity, but are in positions of power to get and take and give whatever they want.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/politics/13memo.html?ei=5094&en=6147bd6550de8972&hp=&ex=1121313600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

Rove Case May Test Bush's Loyalty to His Closest Aides


By DAVID E. SANGER

WASHINGTON, July 12 - ...

No one has been closer to the president longer, or bailed him out of more tight spots, than Karl Rove, his chief political adviser. Now the question is whether President Bush can protect Mr. Rove from a gathering political storm, no matter how furious it becomes.

Current and former White House officials who know both men say they have no doubt that as long as Mr. Rove faces no serious legal charges - and so far he has yet to be charged with anything, and may never be - Mr. Bush will defend him. They point to the words Mr. Bush used to silence conservative critics of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales last week, warning them curtly, "I'm loyal to my friends."


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Mr. Rove can take heart in one fact: so far every other senior official caught up by the cascading series of questions that were touched off by 16 words in Mr. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address has survived, even prospered. Three of Mr. Bush's closest advisers were involved in the drafting or reviewing of the now-discredited language, which said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

The most senior of them, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser at the time, accused the Central Intelligence Agency of feeding bad information to the White House. In an interview earlier this year, she said that "I was the national security adviser and the president said something that probably shouldn't have been in the speech, and it was as much my responsibility" as anyone else's. Mr. Bush not only stuck by her, he made her secretary of state.

[OneBlueSky]

1. BushCo does everything ass-backwards . . .

most places value and reward telling the truth . . . BushCo rewards lying . . . most places value and reward competence . . . BushCo rewards incompetence . . . most places value and reward frugality . . . BushCo rewards profligacy . . .

and so it goes . . .