Hello, from the Alternative Universe

The White House is defending Libby. In part, due to:

In 1992, Libby and former Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz wrote a paper favoring the use of pre-emptive force to prevent countries from developing weapons of mass destruction. The paper later won praise from the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, which called it "a blueprint for maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival."

Excuse me, EXCUSE ME! This is just bogus feces. No one can fault the United States from trying to prevent the rise of a "great power rival." Unfortunately, the great power rivals have already risen: China and India. They both have nuclear weapons. Oh, and let's not forget North Korea and Pakistan. And, of course, there is Israel, who would bomb us in a second if it suited their purposes.

But Iraq? Iraq? There were a lot of munitions in Iraq. They are now all in the hands of people who hate us. There wasn't as much as a nuclear pea shooter.

The problem in this country is that the press doesn't engage in reality testing.