Did anyone notice how the White House Staff was "holding it's breath" last week waiting to see who Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald would indict? If you're Innocent, you breathe easy. As advised by the most expensive lawyers in DC, everyone anywhere near the White House has been holding it for weeks. Those on the inside know the Truth. Fitzgerald is a true American hero, and for nothing more than doing his job, competently. Much like Rosa Parks, you just do what you need to do when it needs to be done. With more to come, the NeoCons are waiting for the other shoe to fall -- on Rove or Cheney -- or both? Does anyone anywhere out there believe for a skinny minute that Scooter acted alone?
But who was "Scooter" Libby? Why does he matter? He's been hiding in the shadows of the White House since Gulf Oil War I under GwB's Daddy, along with the same crew of other NeoCons who were stretching and molding false intelligence information to create Gulf Oil War II.
Scooter is a key Architect shaping the NeoCon manifesto.
Remember the "Peace Dividend" when Russian Communism collapsed? Remember that one bright, shining moment when some of us believed a hugely massive military budget could finally be transformed into good schools, national health care, better libraries, parks and museums, better levees for New Orleans, or perhaps even for space exploration? The long Cold War sponge of our domestic tax dollars was gone. Now could we finally live in the Peace we had won in WWII?
But Ike signaled us, on his way out of office, having seen the inside of the greatest World War, and then corruption inside an enormously profitable post-war machine with time on its hands. "Beware of the military-industrial complex," he warned. Military fascism was beaten. Now comes corporate fascism.
Wars in Korea and Vietnam were dress rehearsals for what was to come. War employs people. War creates profits. War is paid for by willing, subservient taxpayers. War cannot be audited, nor the flow of money diminished. Here is the perfect solution for perpetual profits: perpetual war.
That's what the NeoCons realized. They would hijack the Conservative movement and transform it through lies, spin, and fear into the most lucrative cash cow propaganda machine in the history of humankind. To run such a global machine takes a lot of energy. Energy is oil. Control of oil is power.
Scooter, as a key architect of this NeoCon plan, had two words for the idea of a Peace Dividend: "No way!" No hammering of swords into plowshares. More military spending, not less. If we don't have a war going on, create one, using any excuse.