Why Plame Matters

With the teaser from former White House spokesman Scott McLellan's book, which states that President Bush lied to us (gasp!) about the Plame affair, we learn yet again that we are governed by scum. Does it matter? After all, Plame was a bureaucrat rather than the cloak and dagger operative she has made herself out to be.

Yes, it matters. Her husband, James Wilson, was sent to Niger to investigate whether there was anything to claims that Sadaam Hussein's regime sought to acquire uranium there. He concluded there was nothing to the story. When Liar-in-Chief Dubya used the claim that Iraq had sought to obtain uranium from Africa to sell the war to Americans, Wilson wrote a number of op-ed pieces explaining that Dubya lied about the affair. In retaliation, the White House leaked his wife's employment with the CIA to "journalist" Robert Novak, who dutifully published her name and thereby destroyed her career. Dubya, "Dick" Cheney, Scooter "Convicted Felon" Libby, and Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove denied involvement or knowledge of the leak. Of course, all were lying.

The lie matters because it is this otherwise unimportant lie points directly to (a) the BIG FAT LIES that led the United States to war in Iraq, resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of Americans, and (b) the fact that we are governed by evil men.