House of Eratosthenes

We learn via the Good Lieutenant at Mein Blogovault, of the rather thorough new-asshole-ripping taking place in Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against Rove, etc. Said ripping commences at Captain’s Quarters and is repeated at Flopping Aces.

A complete copy of the complaint can be viewed (PDF) here.

I should point out, in one of my shameless attempts at self-aggrandizement, that all of this has been predictable for nearly a month now.

I’m still waiting to find out what the whole thing that started it all, “What I Didn’t Find In Africa,” commentary in The New York Times by Joseph C. Wilson IV, July 6, 2003, has to do with anything. Ambassador Wilson writes “It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.” The President said in the State of The Union address, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Sought. Africa. Ambassador Wilson comes to doubt such a transaction ever took place in Nigeria. Transaction. Nigeria. Wilson “spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people” and he thinks he proved a negative with regard to a transaction out of Nigeria…that is a leap of faith, by itself. How do you prove Saddam didn’t seek anything from the Continent?

The meat of the complaint, of course, is the “conspiracy” of administration officials to retaliate against Wilson by outing his wife. The complaint makes mention of several people who think that’s exactly what happened…verbal statements, written statements, published articles. It seems to contain no evidence that this took place, either direct or circumstantial, although Section 2, and the 5th and 8th Causes of Action, are based on this.

So those are my two things: How is the Wilson/Plame couple related to anything, and does the lawsuit have merit. The sheer quantity of bunny-trails and red herrings, side issues, so to speak, is most impressive. The Wikipedia entry on the “Yellowcake Forgery” is this long. The entry on the “Plame Affair” is this long.

You know, I’m thinking that in itself is a conspiracy of sorts. This whole thing is supposed to be propping up the neo-religion of “Bush LIED!!!” I’ve noticed when you ask one of President Bush’s critics what the lie is he is supposed to have told, it’s got to do with this statement in the State of the Union, and it doesn’t involve quite so much an intent to deceive, so much as President Bush doing something different from what the Bush critic would have done, if the Bush critic were the President.

The whole story has surpassed, in complexity, what the public-at-large could reasonably be expected to follow. Once again, I’ll just say what I think everybody’s come to conclude on their own: This artificial “complexifying,” if you will, is by design. Simple deliberation would lead to simple conclusions: Saddam Hussein was a thoroughly unacceptable pre-cancerous boil in the ass of world affairs and needed to be taken down, he had “sought” ingredients for weapons of mass destruction from all kinds of places, Joe Wilson is a shameless attention whore and it looks like his wife is too. The controversy is being made much more complicated, not for the sake of gleaning more relevant facts, but because someone somewhere doesn’t like those conclusions.

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