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Felons and assassins. It's Special Prosecutor time, says Mark A. R. Kleiman, on the felonious outing of a CIA undercover operative for the White House's politically convenience.

Meanwhile, Lambert in Atriosland questions the wisdom and effectiveness of killing Saddam's evil boys:

Turning them over to the Hague would have been better for the Iraqi people, too, who probably are not going to be persuaded that Saddam's sons are really dead by any dental records or DNA analysis CENTCOM can produce. Prosecuting them live on TV for weeks on end—that would have been persuasive. Such a strategy worked for the Peruvians when they captured Shining Path leader Guzman and put him in a cage. Why not go with what works?

Bush and his gang seem to think that "hard power"—killing lots of people using very expensive high-tech weaponry—is the essence of what it means to be a great power. The Bush gang likes it, their backers (e.g., Halliburton) like it, and it brings them a bump in news coverage and the polls. So they do it.

Once again, the White House's political expedience remains the only policy criterion there is.

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