There’s a long list of those who have tried to sink a bomb in the Bush administration in the past year.
The weirdest phenomenon is that the very same people who were the attack dogs of the left, are now only debris of the very same group.
Take four guys who set out to use their positions and, in one case, former position, to lay waste to the president. How come these guys went from being in the whistle-blowing spotlight to the newest huge, embarrassing failures?
Richard Clarke, Paul O’Neil and Bob Woodward share the award for the fastest 15 minutes in political history. Built by the media, then forgotten like stormy weather, each may have a chance for a Darwin Award.
Best Supporting Actor for a 15-minute role is unanimously Tim Robbins. Robbins, famous for acting in roles in The Shawshank Redemption. He tried to extend his sphere of influence in world politics, but if the success of his newest play, Embedded, which he directed, is any consolation, he will at least be remembered as the man “who crawled through a half mile of filth and came out clean on the other side.”
America has a tendency not to support those who traverse near the enemy during times of war.
Borrowing from history and the American Revolutionary War, Benedict Arnold was also a successful military leader. He took Fort Ticonderoga after raising a group of men to fight by himself. He stopped the British advancing from the north, taking two battle wounds in the same leg. Finding himself military commander of Philadelphia after the British evacuated, Arnold wasted no time in getting cozy with loyalists. Arnold was soon after found fighting successfully on the other side of the revolution and beating back American forces. When the British surrendered, Arnold returned with General Cornwallis only to be distrusted in Britain for his disloyalty to America.
Are these guys really supported by their own party after their treasonous attacks on the Bush administration and America?
O’ Neil is all but forgotten. Clarke is most likely ready to go hide behind his book. As for Woodward, well, just wait for the next Republican president or a second term for Bush, for his next book.
I cannot see these men as loyal to anything except themselves. All of them have hurt America and Americans when they act in treasonous ways. I doubt that these men are really respected – not one will probably be asked to run for office by the Democratic Party. Debate is great, but partisan attacks are wasting valuable ink from the printing presses.
Claiming victory for themselves, may one day have serious consequences – that is if the country they attack still exists in the event they succeed.

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