Follow The Yellowcake Road

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In our previous post we voiced concern that the fingering of the Rove may have reverse kerning potential.

But a number of the big guns in Blogtopia are playing it smart and are shifting their focus upstream to the front-end of the affair.

Specifically, there has been some excellent analysis of the so-called 'yellowcake documents' which were supposed to be evidence of a pending sale of uranium to Mr. Hussein's regime by the central African country of Niger.

Turns out there were a whole bunch of these things, mostly passed on to the Americans by the Italians, and apparently every last one of them was bogus.

This evening Billmon built an interesting observation-based hypothesis that the reason 'Blame Plame Game' special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is being so zealous in his investigation is because he is actually doing his job (gasp!) and is trying to find out where the documents really originated. This could be particularly illuminating given the fact that every time one document was discredited another one would suddenly pop-up. In fact, this occurred pretty much non-stop from the fall 0f 2001 until the information was finally rammed into Mr. Bush's pre-war the State of the Union address in early 2003.

So how will we know if a search for the true creator (ie. the real origin of the species - who says creationism and evolution can't co-exist!) is what Mr. Fitzgerald is indeed up to and if he is making progress?

Well, there will, of course, be a sudden and viscious burst of slime fired, point blank, at the good prosecutor.

Then he will be accused, no doubt by a chorus of yahoos, but that's not the point, of having had metaphorical carnal knowledge of a barnyard animal of some kind.

And if Fitzgerald and his investigation somehow survive that blizzard of whinge machine fertilizer spreading intact, what will they try next?

Well, there's always the Saturday Night Massacre approach.

But by then hopefully the smart boys will have moved on to the back-end of the thing, focussing on the man behind the curtain pulling the strings.

I guess what we're really trying to say is, forget about Rove for the moment. Let him twist around up there on his own petard for awhile.

Because now is the time to ignore the delusionary diversions and move on to the real thing.

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