Before the celebrating from Rove about dodging a bullet, let's take a quick look at Iraq, that pesky problem that has the ability to get to be a MUCH bigger headache for President jr & Crew depending upon the results of the December 15 elections to elect Irtaq's representatives

Iraq's top Shiite cleric is considering demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops after a democratically elected government takes office next year, according to associates of the Iranian-born cleric......If the Americans and their coalition partners do not comply, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani would use peaceful means such as mass street protests to step up pressure for a pullout schedule, according to two associates of the cleric......He has steadfastly refused to meet with any American officials since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003......But al-Sistani's influence among the majority Shiite community is vast, and a public call for such a timetable would put enormous pressure on Washington to comply......Al-Sistani's influence on Iraq's Shiite community has already forced the United States to make major revisions in its political blueprint for the country. Last year, the Americans agreed to speed up their timetable for handing sovereignty back to the Iraqis and bringing forward the date for last January's election under pressure from al-Sistani......His refusal to meet with U.S. officials has extended even to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghanistan-born Muslim......"He sees U.S. officials as symbols of the occupation," one associate said. "To meet with any of them could be used against him."


Lovely, in allowing glorious freedom for those suicide bombers so ruthlessly suppressed by Saddam Hussein, President Jr's policies are leading to an increasingly deeper alliance between the Mullahs in both Iran & Iraq, with long established secular rights for women chief among the options jettisoned under what's going to be called "Democracy" in Iraq

It's also hard to understand how President Jr can mainatian his focus on Iraq, when every time he's near a reporter, the main question will be one wanting to know how President Jr intends to deal with Karl Rove's treason regarding outing an actual CIA Agent disrupting the sales & transfers of WsMD to rogue regimes, groups & individuals

All those sources Plame built up in her work for the CIA, they've been put at risk for no reason other than the most petty & repulsive of political hardball tactics, which means this crew has blood on it's hands if the US suffers an attack with WsMD on US soil

To condone Rove's unalloyed arrogance is to condone outright treason against the US

Rove should spent the rest of his nasty little life behind bars, permanently disgraced along the lines of another US-Hating "Patriot", Sen Joe McCarthy