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Sometimes the spiral inwards becomes hypnotic, like taking a trip it is hard to focus on anything else other then the spinning circle that descends into itself only to shoot out and then descend inwards towards its centre again. A perpetual cycle glimpsing of hope of either an end or a new beginning, in reality a trick of the hand and eye. The hypnotic repetition continues, and that is where we are with the leaving of Karl Rove, or as Bush borrowed a phrase from The Matrix, called him ‘The Architect’.

Karl Rove, one of the most powerful men in the US and by implication the world, stood behind George W Bush and masterminded his election strategies, identified the policies that the voters resonated with, and then packaged it up in a comfy, home-grown, cowboy appearance of the Bush Jr.

The man who revealed the identity of Valerie Plane as an undercover CIA agent because her husband Joe Wilson debunked the rumour spread by the British and Israeli Intelligence Services that uranium was being purchased by Saddam from Niger, to make Weapons of Mass Destruction. Once the scandal started to grow and the Democrats regained the House of Representatives, they started pushing for a prosecution and that included successfully prosecuting Lewis Scooter Libby only for Bush to use his Presidential veto to commute his prison sentence.

That ability to pardon while in Office may be the reason for 'The Architect' to resign now, while he’s boss and has 18 more months to go. The current Administration has trampled over the Intelligence Services, compromised its own military and in Karl Rove's case been involved in subverting the Judiciary, as many of those culpable need to get out now so they can be pardoned later. This is not a game for the weak, timid or brittle. On the one hand the Democrats prosecute with vigour and try to make enough mud stick. By default they are seen as a anti-sleaze party and it makes winning the Presidential elections easier. If they take their time, it makes the charges look politically motivated and that in turn turns voters off.

The Democrats will go for the kill. If the prosecution is successful and he is given a prison term, he has his man with the big stick in the Oval Office signing Presidential pardons. Who ever said Karl Rove was cynical?

The chances are that Mr. Rove will get away with it. The chances are that he will swan off into the sunset and write a book, do lecture tours and join the board of some very senior companies, all the time while the American Judiciary may takes years to recover, or at worst now that he has shown how it is done, it may start a sequence where Democrats once in power will start their own purge of Government Attorneys, they think are Republican.

How did it ever get to this? Maybe because the Democrats under Clinton pardoned morally dubious people like the Israeli tax exile Marc Rich, whose wife had made substantial donations to the Clinton Library project and Hilary’s Senate race contribution? And by way, Marc Rich, according to Paul Vockers Iraqi-oil-for-kickbacks-scheme, was involved in directly handling over 4m barrels in suspect oil deals. And the Zionist press went for Galloway?

Once the genie of corruption is out of the bottle and starts to consume the body politics, it's not long before the victims are more then white collar workers and attorneys, the victims become real people, young men from deprived backgrounds become soldiers fighting and dying for immoral causes, civilians blown to smithereens by smart weapons dropped so that we can liberate them and sell freedom to the masses, or immune Western mercenaries, who make a war into an adventure, attacking adrenalin junkies with no accountability to military discipline or a standing army's code of conduct.

If the Democrats do win, will Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, or John Edwards be less prone to having dubiously moral advisers? Will they have dubious donors and use the Democratic system to subvert justice and place people above and beyond the law?

Are we looking at the circle decrease or is it increasing? I never can tell.

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