Reply #10: Since when has pure speculation ever stopped the Bushistas?

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At least this pure speculation has the benefit of being grounded in an objective fact: The death of a covert CIA agent in 2003. Whether or not this was a direct result of Rove's compromising Valerie Plame's position, it's still evidence that CIA operatives are engaged in a dangerous business that could mean their deaths at any time.

But Rove, for his own petty political purposes, outed a CIA covert operative as payback for what her husband said. Did someone die because of it? We'll never know, but maybe . . .

I'm just applying the well-known Bush administration tactic of rushing to judgment before all the facts are known. Thousands and thousands of Iraqis have died, nearly 1,800 of our military personnel have died, and we've squandered hundreds of billions of dollars on the basis of George's playing a wrong hunch. Doesn't Karl Rove deserve the same consideration as these thousands of dead?