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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (223581)	3/11/2007 2:55:04 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The only thing Rich puts forward is promulgating the Iraq war policy, "tarted up" (to borrow a phrase) in the most sinister possible light. Well Cheney did promulgate the Iraq War policy. But that was a policy that the administration was legally entitled to promulgate however little Mr. Rich likes it. Was Lyndon Johnson "legally entitled" to fabricate Gulf of Tonkin attacks? Yeah, I know, we disagree about the lead up to this war. If Libby does in fact serve jail time, he may be disposed to write yet another political memoir, one that might sit on the shelf beside David Stockman's The Triumph of Politics. I doubt many Bush admin higher ups would like it. What Mr. Libby did -- fabricating nuclear threats at WHIG and then lying under oath when he feared that sordid Pandora's box might be pried open by the Wilson case -- was despicable. Had there been no WHIG or other White House operation for drumming up fictional rationales for war, there would have been no bogus uranium from Africa in a presidential speech, no leak to commit perjury about, no amputees to shut away in filthy rooms at Walter Reed.

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