Originally Posted by ratbastid

You expect them to? Don't be naive. This was the first substantial chink in the administration's armor. You better damn well expect the opponents of the administration to politicize that for all they're worth! And as I've said earlier--the public interest has moved on, and the damage is done. I strongly suspect that attempts to un-crater the thing are futile at this point.

Here's the real thing about all of this. The Bush Administration is extremely adept at turning leaked scandals into scandals ABOUT the leak. In this case, it turned back on them, but they have still succeeded in keeping the attention OFF the yellowcake lie, which is what this whole thing was really about.

Remember that? The whole going to war with a justification that was known to be bogus? 60,000 human beings dead because of a lie? That's what this is really about. Forget who outed whom and why they did it. I admit, while that story made political hay, I was happy to graze on it, but now that it's what it is, let's remember what the real scandal is, please.