I am not mad at y'all bloggers, I just want you to uphold your end of the argument with facts and not just political blather. And since you all are anonymous and I am not, I feel I have some liberty to attack your opinions without seeming to attack you personally, which I would never do. If we met socially, I hope and believe that you would find me charming, polite and deferential. Let me point to a specific case where I think you are expressing no facts just partisan bull, parroting the right-wing talking points. In a previous post, you wrote the following:

“In their zeal to smear the president they have launched a witch hunt at the White House, when the special prosecutor knew the Undersecretary of defense leaked a non covert agengts name because her lying husband published his unqualified opinions in the NY Tiimes to help defeat the president!”

Valerie Plame was one of the CIA’s most clandestine employees, a nonofficial covert officer in charge of the Joint Task Force on Iraq operations group vetting intelligence from Iraqi defectors and searching for WMDs and Joseph Wilson was a US diplomat from 1976 until 1998 working in Africa including being Ambassador to Gabon. He was also the acting Ambassador to Iraq when Iraq invaded Kuwait and served from 1997 to 1998 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council coordinating of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. As you know, I have given you references for my sources of this information. The CIA claimed she was covert and it was the CIA’s official complaint which started the whole investigation.

Except by citing purely partisan political talking points, can you cite any confirmable facts or sources that Plame was non-covert, that her husband lied in his NY Times op-ed article and do you have any support for explaining your contention that he was unqualified? Also, can you tell be who the “they” was that started the witch hunt when the Special Prosecutor, a life-long Republican, was appointed by the Justice Department controlled completely by Republicans?

I've heard all of this before about the Wilsons. Claims with no substantiation. And I believe the reason that you contend it so strongly is that the revelation of a covert CIA agent's name is despicable and it endangers them and their associates and harms the country. To avoid confronting that reality, harmful and shameful to your party, it is more convenient for you Republicans to claim that Plame was not covert and that Wilson was unqualified regardless of any facts. Furthermore, I very strongly suspect that the majority of Republicans are secretly horrified that y'all revealed this highly classified information and blew the agents cover and desperately wish that the Democrats had done it. I can only imagine the partisan outcry from Republicans had that been the case.

Learned liberal behavior Major ..... don't fault them for not being able to think for themselves. Emotive thinkers have always turned arguments personal when they run out of useful, logical information. What really bothers me is how a person can take one small bit of somewhat accurate information and ignore the rest of the information related to it completely. Has the left and the national media, The Democratic 'Leadership', and the AJC apologized to Karl Rove yet? By the way, according to her husband, Valarie Plame-Wilson is a CIA opreative....shhhh! Please, for your own sanity's sake, stop trying to make emotive thinkers (Liberals) use reason!! Oh, and while I have your attention, Paula Jones is just trailer trash, the US is the cause of all of the worlds problems, Bush caused gas prices to rise (they are falling now only because he is not not paying attention to them) and Rush Limbaugh kept Ray Nagin from allowing those buses to be used to evacuate all of those who so eagerly tried to leave the week before Hurricane Katrina (which, as we all know, was a storm devised by Karl Rove!)Thought you might want to know as we approach the anniversary of the 9/11 inside job. Come on Major, you're talking about the party of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary "Rose Law Firm" Rodham-Clinton, Cynthia McKinney, Shelia Jackson-Lee (you know "is the Mars rover going where we put the flag?" - Uh, no ma'am that was the moon.) - enough said?? Let them rant and rave ...... they are still suffering from "selective recount disorder".