"Meanwhile, I'm not going to let Prisonplanet.com and Truthout.org tell me how it is, particularly after, in the latter case, their spectacular Plame flameout, among many others, reduced their credibility into the negative numbers."

I wish you applied the same evaluative criteria to the Bush administration. How many of their claims have turned out to be completely unfounded? I'm not just talking about WMD and Al-Qaeda connections in Iraq- but about everything from how much the war would cost to how many troops would be needed, to how quickly Iraq could be re-built.... Etc Etc ad nauseum.

I know, I know: "Lies! LIES! nothing but lies!!" Lets skip that stage of the discussion and see if we can't go somewhere else with this.

DL