Ok, now I'm really pissed. Just how many times will our government betray us? We are taught from grade school to respect the "authority" of our government and yet time and time again that same entity either fails or betrays us.

Today, Judge John D. Bates dismissed the Valerie Plame case against the WH administration officials who leaked her name to the lump of seditious crap known as Robert Novak. But why would you be surprised at this?

Judge John D. Bates also dismissed the lawsuit seeking to find who met with Cheney and now that we know he met with the big oil companies and their names, why would Bates suddenly want to uphold the law? His decisions to dismiss cases where clearly there is a public interest raise the question, Where do you go to get justice?

As it is now, the judge sits on the same court that rubber stamps Bush's searches of your inner most records, allows them to even ignore his FISA court, and yet when we seek to know who met with Cheney, or when Valerie Plame seeks restitution for the damage done to her career, he decides he has no juristiction and that nothing was proven.

I don't care what college he went to, or even who appointed him. This decision has really destroyed any further faith I have that our government is of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead we have a government for the powerful, by the powerful, and for the explicit purpose to use, betray, and deny the citizens of the United States.

I don't know what appeal process follows his current decision, but I hope CREW and the Wilson's continue to fight to out all the traitors.

Even to this day, Robert Novak says he'd publish the information again. So please explain to me,...How in the hell is he not a traitor?

Newsflash:

The Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that American troops can leave "any time they want" this week.

wait a minute...isn't that when they said we'd leave, "when they ask us to leave, we'll leave. its as simple as that"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070524.html

Martha. (presumably Martha Radditz)

Q Thank you, Mr. President. You say you want nothing short of victory, that leaving Iraq would be catastrophic; you once again mentioned al Qaeda. Does that mean that you are willing to leave American troops there, no matter what the Iraqi government does? I know this is a question we've asked before, but you can begin it with a "yes" or "no."

THE PRESIDENT: We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It's their government's choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave."

JUST THINK OF THE SAVINGS

WOW, al-Maliki has just saved American troops lives by saying that BushCo LLP. can go ahead and go now. But will the administration that said it would leave when asked, do so?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6780195,00.html

I don't speak enough Arabic to translate what al-Maliki said about, "any time they want." But it is clear what was said by the rest of the context. This government has been repeatedly insulted by our leaders as incompetent and impotent.

We've already heard al-Maliki state he wasn't George Bush's boy, and yet the arrogance from BushCo LLP. has topped itself time and again. The interesting thing will be to watch over the coming days how the Bushies will respond.

Will they say:

a.) Ok, sure, we'll go, when we want

b.) Ok, sure, we'll go, when we have assurances that we can do business in Iraq as we wish.

c.) Mission Accomplished

d.) Here's a reparations check for the damages.

e.) Wait a minute buddy, not so fast, you aren't mature enough.

f.) Wait a minute buddy, not so hasty, you're not able to protect yourself and us from Al-Qaida.

g.) No, we aren't ready to leave just yet. We have to make sure OUR INTERESTS are secured.

This war was started on a general pretense that it was in our National Interest to invade Iraq. On March 19th, BushCo LLP invaded with consent from Congress, without Congress declaring war, and had convinced enough people in the US that it was in their Interest.

Who is collecting on that interest?

The robbery may be complete. The vast sums of money needed to sit back and be fat have already been taken, and the loans have YOUR children's names on them. The debt incurred during this robbery of the United States by the hawks of this war will be owed for generations. It will not be isolated to money, but more generations in conflict, more bloodshed, and more devastation.

Those who profitted of this war, CACI, Titan, Bechtel, Aegis Defense Services, Custer Battles, General Dynamics, Nour USA Ltd., Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil, and of course our friends at Halliburton, are now swimming your dough.

I'll be tuned in to see the developments, but so far, these geniuses have only been able to create more and more malady and death than democracy and order.

I'm sorry it took me to get so in line, but I guess I'm rooting for al-Maliki's government to hold the fort and let our girls and boys and energy companies come home. Let the contractors leave, and pay the people of Iraq to rebuild.

We'll see.