Confirming What We Already Knew

By Cernig

Valerie Plame was indeed covert at the time of her outing according to a newly declassified CIA document - so yes, it was a crime that she was unmasked, one no-one has yet been charged with. Scooter Libby should go to jail for his involvement but where's the real culprit? Some folks wonder how many wingnuts will retract and begin baying for traitorous blood...and aren't holding their breath.

Bush is an abject and pathetic failure - so it was only a matter of time before someone suggested he must be some kind of liberal. Truth be told, the GOP is so single-issue now that you can be a social liberal in truth and as long as you're a war-hawk willing to bomb Hadji you can be the Republican frontrunner.

The Nazi Gestapo invented the term "enhanced interrogation" and even they thought waterboarding and hypothermia were extreme forms of torture. Nor did their protestations that it was all legal because they were "only interrogating illegal combatants" hold any juice when they fell from power - they all deserved their death sentences.

Progress in Iraq is likely to miss the September expiry of the latest Friedman Unit, so it must be time to move the goalposts again.

And finally, we must realize that conservatives encourage ideological debate while liberals are just internally divided. And anyone who disagrees with the failed warmongering policies of the extreme Right is by definition a liberal.