I wish journalists would acknowledge the giant elephant in the room and, instead of using terms like "the broad attitude of the Bush White House toward the press" tell it like it is: "The attitude of the Cheney White House toward....everyone who doesn't agree with him." To continue to play the game of who's running things there is to buy into the lies as much as Libby and others have done.

Yes, Libby is a liar. Cheney is a bigger liar. Everyone around them lies. So why do ethical journalists have to lie as well?

Who the heck cared in past administrations if a vice president was offended by the remarks of....well....anyone, let alone a private person attempting to dispute something said by or concocted by the office of the vice president? He was basically a non-entity in the scheme of things in previous administrations.

To continue to hold Dubya up as the leader of this country is spreading the lie. We need to acknowledge the elephant (pun not intended) in the room and admit what you all know. Dubya (who doesn't know truth from fiction himself)is the one who is the non-entity in this administration. (I'm not even sure he dislikes the press as much as he's afraid of the press and of showing his ignorance when asked questions he can't answer.) The newest "Tricky Dick" Cheney - who has a history his entire career working for government of trying to destroy those who disagree with him or get in his way - and poor dumb, memory-impaired Scooter, along with a handful of nutty neocons, have been running the show!

The little boy next door hit my daughter. His mother wanted him to apologize so she said "Say you're sorry" He looked my little girl in the eye and said "You're sorry."

Members of Congress who voted to authorize Bush/Cheney to go to war in Iraq are about as sincere in their apologies for that vote as that little boy next door.

Did he hit my daughter again? You bet he did! Would they vote that way again if they felt it was politically expedient? You bet they would!

Hmmm....that was so many years ago. I wonder what happened to that little boy. He's probably holding political office today.

...he uses that term. It's obvious that his staff and advisers say "Do you understand...?" to him regularly, as they try to explain things (anything) to him---knowing he doesn't and never has understood.

No, he doesn't understand - let alone FULLY understand - anything.

Impeach the dummy and his evil pal, Dick!

Cheney said to the group of true believers last night that a too-soon withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could send victorious militants spreading out, with some flocking to Afghanistan to fight alongside a regrouping Taliban.

Huh? Isn't Afghanistan where our military went after 9/11 in our search for Osama bin Laden? Isn't it where the American people were told we must fight the terrorists? Wasn't Afghanistan just a ruse to get large numbers of American military and materiel into that region for the real purpose ascribed to by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfelf cabal from the time they took over the White House? Isn't that the place from where we then withdrew troops to send them to invade Iraq? Wasn't it little more than a staging ground?

Did we ever really care about the Taliban? Do we even care now about the Taliban? Isn't fighting the Taliban how Osama bin Laden got his start---with our backing?

Isn't Dick Cheney nuts?

My guess is that the jury felt Scooter, like a good Nazi, was only following orders of the supreme evilmeister Cheney. Our only hope is that in order to avoid long-term imprisonment, Libby will strike a deal that will not only send Cheney out of the country for another long trip, but force the evilmeister to resign and leave the planet. The idea that anyone is going to impeach Shrub and Tricky Dickie is ludicrous. But, is there anything Congress can do to prevent a pardon? Perhaps they should put legal-eagle Gonzalez (teamed up with Harriet Miers) to work on trying to find some way to limit the powers of the presidency to make him unable to let these crooks off the hook.

Ahhh....one can dream!

But, back to reality. Being the great fictional writer that Libby is, I think the government would be doing a literary service by making his prison stay about 20 years. That's how long it took him to write his first novel. Think what an outstanding product would result from his spending full time on the next one.