It's also just another step in the whole sequence...

The administration was misleading us about Saddam & the WMD's, & anyone who questioned the "facts" being presented was being held as traitors or worse...Joe Wilson publicly called them out, so they retaliated by outing his wife as a CIA agent...when the shit hit the fan, they started the cover-up, & Libby got snared in his own perjury...now that Scooter won't be facing jail time, there's certainly no chance he'll ever give up any info he may have had about the incident...

When some make a big deal of bad deeds committed by a previous president, I like to recite a little rhymelet I saw on a bumper sticker...

"When Clinton lied, nobody died"

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