Ted Westhusing and Duke Cunningham: separated by duty
- From: "alt.politics.bush" <thomasw540@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Dec 2005 08:56:27 -0800
3 December 2005
Colbert L. King are both partially correct about the manifest
corruption in the Karl Rove wing of the GOP. It isn't something that
has evolved with time: they came to town corrupt in 1981, starting with
Ed Meese (but excluding Reagan and Nancy) and, in 1994, they ran on the
Corruption ticket, aka The Contract With America.
If King were to research the Washington Post in September and October
1994, there are 2 articles about a conference Newt Gingrich spoke to
here in town comprised of 2 real estate associations. I don't
remember who they are, but I think one was essentially a local
association and then a larger, national association. I couldn't
believe his remarks, as they were reported, but it is a classic example
of the neo-con winning through intimidation, carrot-and-stick,
quid-pro-quo arrangement Duke Cunningham represents. To paraphrase
Newty, he told the realitors that, if they voted against them (the
Contract with American) they would be punished and if they voted for
them, Newty would deliver Clarksburg for their loyalty. I mean, these
people were already doing business like Cunningham in places like
Muncie and San Diego and they brought their corrupt practices to town
and began running things the way they are running things in Iraq and
Enron.
Just for the record, Duke Cunningham has been led astray by the same
stuck on stupid people who led John McCain and Ollie North astray in
their own times. And Grant, for that matter. The example of Duke
Cunningham should stand as a cautionary tale for all military officers
of senior rank preparing for a civilian career. American business is a
fascinating and exhilarating arena, but issues of honor are simply not
comparable. I don't have any good advice but to be ware: you are a
stranger in a strange land.
Also just for the record, Duke Cunningham is just the tip of the
iceberg. All the clever white boys in the Republican Study Committee
are trying to scatter like roaches when the light comes, but, again in
the Washington Post, Cunningham was up to his neck with whoever these
people Newty was talking to in 1994 and at the top of this food chain
has been the Committee on the District of Columbia under Connie Morella
and Tom Davis III, and all their homeboys from the 'hood. I mean, it
prove to be impossible to separate Tom Delay's indictment from the
common and collective behaviors of everyone associated with the
Contract With American. I mean, the idea that Delay's lawyer is
trying to get the money laundering thrown out because a cheque was
employed instead of cash would be laughable on its face in a rational
world. And then to seek a change of venue because he can get a better
jury in a Red county in Texas says more about the results oriented
nature of the Texas Justus system than anything I could concoct. Molly
Ivins has been writing abou this for years, but she is largely ignored
by the national media and that's the operating premise of Delay's:
nobody is paying attention. In this regards, Delay has made the same
mistake Paul Thayer made when he was passing insider information to his
mistress.
It is honestly easier to illuminate the honest Republicans than to try
to enumerate the sins of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP, what might be
called the Spiro T. Cheney wing of the GOP.
On another subject, Lt. General Martin Dempsey gave the definitive
military agenda over C-Span yesterday after the Washington Journal. If
you take Bushie's speech at the Naval Academy as the Ideal and the
Intent of Iraqi Freedom as it has evolved to accommodate the situation,
Dempsey's briefing illustrates the Ways and the Means. The 10
division model is a perfectly satisfactory structure for growing a
modern republican military force submitted to the rule of law and
responsive to the will of the people of Iraq. The US military has been
working this plan almost from the start, but most definitely since the
Project for the New American Century ran into Fallujah. The contingent
nature of the plan is most apparent in the development of the police
forces: strickly speaking, this is not an appropriate military mission,
except in the broadest detail. But the 10 year phase line for the
military is both practical and pretty much on track, as far as I can
determine. The actual time line is closer to 13 years, but the
formation of the initial cadre will have been on the bit nearly 3 years
by the 15 December 2005 elections and this begins to express the
feed-back, feed-forward, feed-through looping characteristic of an
organic military entity. The squad is the basis of the modern military
organization and this army has literally been built from the squad, up.
Dempsey said something which echoes something Lance Armstrong said in
response to a question about his strategy for the race. He said:
"Our training is our strategy: we deal with contingencies as they
arise in the race". Well, this unfolding plan Dempsey presented
falls exactly into this category. If you substitute Dempsey's
briefing for the empty rhetoric of Bushie and Rumsfeld on any given
day, you have essentially Jack Murtha's plan for withdrawal. On the
other hand, if you repeat "Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton"
over and over again for the content of Dempsey's brief, you get the
Ideal and Intent of the neo-colonial ambitions of The Project for the
New American Century.
And that's the truth.
Just for the record, Ted Westhusing ran into the same thing that
scared me out of the military, what ever it was that killed him. If
you eat the King's salt, you are the King's man and at some point,
the piper of "Honor and Duty" must be paid. The same thing
happened to Mike Boorda: Catch 22 writ large. I knew that, if I stayed
in the Action Army, at some point I was going to confront with the
intent of destroying whatever it was I collided with and it was going
to be spectacular. Ted Westusing's suicide is a direct result of the
corruption that Halliburtion represents in the conduct of the war, the
intellectual as well as the purely mercenary corruption I associate
with the Project for the New American Century.
Ted Westhusing taught philosophy at West Point. It is useful for young
soldiers in the sandbox to remember that Socrates was a combat veteran
and that, when he came home from way, the same stupid people saying the
same stupid things that got him sent into dubious battle were still
running things.
Let me put this into different terms. For 25 years, I have been doing
this commentary under the cover of Appleseed Enterprises in the
material world. The subtext of this commentary is that everything
these people, the Karl Rove wing of the GOP, touches turns to shit.
Just ask Duke Cunningham.
And that's the truth.
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