Valerie Plame-Karl Rove Timeline

Today's New York Times provides an excellenct timeline on the Valerie Plame-Karl Rove Case:



(Just click on the images to go to the NYT page.)

Karl Rove's America

Be sure to ready Paul Krugman's Op-Ed this morning about "Karl Rove's America" -- click here. Here is an excerpt:

What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.

Funny, when I saw the title of Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth, I thought it was overwrought: now, seeing a professional writer use it a bit better, it seems just right...

Patrick Seale: US Cannot Win in Iraq

Veteran Middle East analyst Patrick Seale commented in last week's Daily Star (Lebanon) that "America is facing the real possibility of defeat in Iraq." According to Mr. Seale, the insurgency continues unabated, while sectarian violence rises, overseen by over-extended US troops and unprepared Iraqi troops. U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel told U.S. News & World Report just the day before, "The reality is, we're losing in Iraq." Earlier last month, former CIA director John M. Deutch, called for American troops to pull out of Iraq "as soon as possible."

He even compared US withdrawal from Iraq to Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Seale's bottom line? "Occupation breeds insurrection."

Click here to read the full article.