After you have noted that the Niger uranium connection was in fact based on intelligence that has turned out to be sound, you may also note that this heated moral tone ("thuggish," "gang") is now quite absent from the story. It turns out that the person who put Valerie Plame's identity into circulation was a staunch foe of regime change in Iraq. Oh, that's all right, then. But you have to laugh at the way Corn now so neutrally describes his own initial delusion as one that was "seized on by administration critics."
After patiently explaining to those who refuse to understand the straightforward explanation that Iraq was indeed trying to get Uranium from Africa, Hitchens has done another good job in exposing the sham of political opportunism gone mad in our political world. Sadly, nobody Corn hates will be frog-marched over this big non-scandal. Wilson is a truth-impaired idiot and Plame is an embarrassment of a CIA agent. Clearly they deserve each other. So does Armitage get sued by the Inspector Gadget couple for ruining what they think are their sterling reputations?
I go back to what I wrote nearly a year ago. I just want to know who sent the buffoon Wilson on such an important mission. That person should be frog-marched out of their office.
