Frank Rich: Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 8:33am

Frank Rich in great form this morning!

He reminds us that whatever indictments are handed down this week, the real crime is that they lied about why we should go to war.

Concluding grafs:

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Joseph Wilson wasn't a player in these exalted circles; he was a footnote who began to speak out loudly only after Saddam had been toppled and the mission in Iraq had been "accomplished." He challenged just one element of the W.M.D. "evidence," the uranium that Saddam's government had supposedly been seeking in Africa to fuel its ominous mushroom clouds.

But based on what we know about Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's hysterical over-response to Mr. Wilson's accusation, he scared them silly. He did so because they had something to hide. Should Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove have lied to investigators or a grand jury in their panic, Mr. Fitzgerald will bring charges. But that crime would seem a misdemeanor next to the fables that they and their bosses fed the nation and the world as the whys for invading Iraq.
Frank Rich: Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure