I spent many hours fund-raising for Democrats in both 2004 and 2006. However, if Hillary is the nominee I won't lift a finger. I detest the woman, not because she is a woman but because she is an enabler of Bush policies and was an enabler to the worst impulses of her husband. She has always impressed me as all about ambition. Her pandering is so obvious! In her politics she is a slicker version of Joseph Lieberman. She is not authentic anything IMO. As long as we can keep substantial Democratic majorities in Congress I won't feel bad if a Republican gains the White House again. For me it is anybody but Hillary!

Unfortunately Thomas Powers did not elaborate on the alleged connection between the fraudulent Niger yellowcake letter and Michael Ledeen and his neocon cronies. As one of the three original props for a rationale to invade Iraq, along with aluminum tubes and a supposed Prague meeting between Mohammad Atta and Saddam's people, the forged Niger letter originated from Italian sources. And guess where Michael Ledeen was when this letter first appeared? Much has been speculated about this and there is much circumstantial evidence to implicate Ledeen and his cabal. I wish this article had given it some coverage. It is the reason for the Joseph Wilson-Valery Plame imbroglio that has consumed the Beltway for the past three years and the reason Scooter Libby is slated for prison. I just wonder if the criminals who got us into this disaster will ever pay.