As we endlessly debate Bush's reluctance to simply answer an innocent question on character and integrity in his administration, an issue that he has always propagated as a major theme in his campaigns and as a virtue in his style of governing, it is truly devastating that the Bush administration is only being admonished for a single aide lying to investigators during an investigation in the possible outing of a CIA operative in retaliation for an op-ed piece in the New York Times some three years ago. And the fact that the greatest crime of all, the defrauding of the American public into supporting an unnecessary war by intentionally misleading the American people with known unthruths, goes undetected and unreported. The result: thousands of young Americans died for the "cause," billions of tax dollars spent to clean up the mess, and hundreds of profit-laden contracts signed by defense contractors. The president was re-elected (the "accountability moment") with this information well-known but effectively unreported, and only one perpetrator involved in the crime has been caught on what is, for all intents and purposes, a technicality.

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