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Joan Walsh's Article linking the Plame investigation with the 2000 dead soldiers in Iraq is interesting and insightful. However, I disagree with her assertion that the war itself is what really matters here, and that the question of who leaked Valerie Plame's name is just so much superfluous gossip. We can all argue and disagree about what caused America to embark on this horrific misadventure in Iraq. However, it is now an undisputable fact that someone purposefully blew the cover of an undercover CIA agent, and in the process, destroyed a whole intelligence network that was working to stem the global proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This is an act that strikes at the heart of American national security, as well as the security and safety of the world in general. It is just as damaging as any act of cold war espionage. It is, as George H.W. Bush called it, Treason. The fact that this breach appears to have originated somewhere in the highest reaches of the administration itself is, in and of itself, a horror of horrors, irregardless of why we went to war with Iraq or how many soldiers have died. Ultimately, it is the heart of what really matters here.
