In winning the debate over Iran, there is only one talking point you need to remember: Iran is not building any nukes. All of the scientific evidence points to this fact. Iran does not have the capacity to make centrifuges for its own reactor, let alone make weapons-grade uranium.

Donald Rumsfeld talked about the role of the Bush administration in history in his op-ed yesterday. But given the fact that Iraq had no WMD's, given the fact that there is no crisis in Social Security, and given the fact that Iran is not building any nukes, the Bush administration will go down in history as the administration that cried wolf.

FYI: Joe Wilson will be on Wolf's show today in the Situation Room.

I think it may be partly a follow-up to 60 minutes' show last night.

This morning I heard a man call in to my local AM radio station, and he had an interesting but dangerous argument.

What this man said was that he "believed that this whole Wilson story was just a matter of different impressions".

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He explained by saying that Wilson had one impression of the story, and that the Bush Administration had another impression. He also went on to say that it was wrong of Wilson to write his story on the Niger incident because he had "no knowledge" of whether or not the Niger information was true or not, since 'nobody' knew definitively!

Please, this was no misunderstanding, this was not a 'mixed signals' issue. This Administration knew  damn well what they were doing, and it is why they are fighting so hard to keep it covered up. The truth needs to come out at every turn, and obfuscating the main issues with so much smoke up everyone's ass is just not acceptable. This needs a solid refutation.

Don't let this pathetic argument circulate in the mainstream without answer!

Patrick Fitzgerald, in his press conference on October 28, made clear what kind of testimony he still seeks.

As others have written, including emptywheel at The Next Hurrah, the indictment itself was written to signal to others of interest that Fitzy already has a lot of information, and a lot of witnesses.  What's more, it's likely that he is (think Don Adams here as Maxwell Smart) this close to bringing a conspiracy indictment.

But during his press conference, Fitzy told all concerned exactly what he wants to know, putting everyone involved in this conspiracy into a clasic prisoner's dillemma situation.

More on the flip.