Finally! Someone at The Times Gets It: Frank Rich

Frank Rich is absolutely right in today's article: PlameGate is ALL about Iraq. To understand PlameGate, you literally need to follow both the uranium AND the lies.

Make time to read it. This is an article The Times - so caught in trying to bleed for Judith Miller who dug enough graves for others in her time hunting bogus WMDs - should have published a long, long while ago.

A snippet:

These attacks, too, are red herrings. Let me reiterate: This case is not about Joseph Wilson. He is, in Alfred Hitchcock's parlance, a MacGuffin, which, to quote the Oxford English Dictionary, is "a particular event, object, factor, etc., initially presented as being of great significance to the story, but often having little actual importance for the plot as it develops." Mr. Wilson, his mission to Niger to check out Saddam's supposed attempts to secure uranium that might be used in nuclear weapons and even his wife's outing have as much to do with the real story here as Janet Leigh's theft of office cash has to do with the mayhem that ensues at the Bates Motel in "Psycho."