Jay -
You seem like a rational human being, how the fuck can you defend Bush? You spend your time attacking others in some misguided attempt to prove your intellectual merit. BFD. Can you actually defend W's actions without resorting to "they did it" or tortured constitutional readings relying on Ouija communications with the ghost of Jefferson's drunken maid?
Bob Novak has also forgotten his password, but he'd like to pass along the fact that he's as much a sucker for irony as I am, and given the tone of Matt's recent posts in general, and his last post in particular, he asked me to pass along the following comments:
"When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he "thought" might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.
An accurate depiction of what Armitage actually said deepens the irony of him being my source. He was a foremost internal skeptic of the administration's war policy, and I long had opposed military intervention in Iraq. Zealous foes of George W. Bush transformed me improbably into the president's lapdog. But they cannot fit Armitage into the left-wing fantasy of a well-crafted White House conspiracy to destroy Joe and Valerie Wilson. The news that he and not Karl Rove was the leaker was devastating news for the Left."
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
