The facts:

1. Valerie Plame was an employee of the CIA.

2. Valerie Plame was living in the United States.

3. It is illegal for the CIA to conduct intelligence operations in the US.

Thus, if Valerie Plame was spying on someone or living under an assumed identity (meaning of “covert”), then she was doing it for someone other than the US.

If anything is irrelevant it is Novak’s old-time friendship with Rove.

IT MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER THAT A CRITIC OF THE WAR WOULD CONSPIRE TO PUNISH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL FOR CRITICIZING THE WAR.
Sorry to yell, but you just seem to ignore all of the logical fallacies in your arguments when I point them out, so I’ll just keep repeating them until you can explain them or admit to the flawed logic.

Another logical fallacy you ignore; here comes the shouting again: YOU SAID THE CIA WAS IMPRESSED BY JOE WILSON’S CREDENTIALS, CITING THE PRAISE HE RECEIVED FROM GEORGE HW BUSH IN 1991 FOR HIS PROTECTION OF THE US EMBASSY IN IRAQ AS “HIS CREDENTIALS.” HIS EXPERIENCE AS A DIPLOMAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS ABILITIES TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION. FIND A REASON, OTHER THAN NEPOTISM, THAT THE CIA WOULD HAVE SENT WILSON TO NIGER. IF YOU CAN PROVIDE NONE, THEN ADMIT IT WAS NEPOTISM.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16793

I don’t know how many of them were killed in the Green Zone (actually the issue was hotel balconies, but no matter). Out of 86 dead journalists, it is certainly reasonable to assume that the bulk of them were killed outside the Green Zone, which supposedly is safer than outside the Zone. However, this is a distinction without a difference. Given the enormous personal sacrifice of journalists serving in Iraq, I think it is offensive to imply that reporting is limited to reporters working from their hotel room balconies.

Yet again, this unprovable statement begats another question – your supposition that because reporters are “getting abducted and murdered” is absolutely no evidence that they’re actually reporting from anywhere else but within the Green Zone. This is what you cite as evidence?

And what are you talking about in reference to the Journal and the Economist? I subscribe to both, but have seen no solid evidence in either pub that correlates to your claims here.

Again, no cites, no evidence – just rants and ravings. You do not seek to persuade in your arguments on this matter – only to vent your considerable spleen.

2) If the “one person” you refer to is Allawi, then I think his word has some credibility. If you mean journalists, then I can tell you that the reporting in the Journal and the Economist (hardly liberal media) aligns with the reports in the Times.

3) I don’t know who Omar is, but unless you think the daily reporting is fabricated (how many people died today? Fifty?), the facts speak for themselves. If Allawi’s figure of fifty to sixty deaths every day is accurate, then it’s the equivalent (based on Iraq’s population size) of an Iraqi 9/11 every six days.

Then you go on to use ONE comment from ONE person to support your “eyewitness accounts.” Congrats, Peter – your new reporter’s job at the NYT is ready for your immediate occupation.

Have you even bothered to read Omar the Iraq Model’s blog? There are countless others, where you read both the good and the bad that’s currently going on in the country, reported by regular citizens trying to get on with their lives. You know, people who actually are living in the country, rather than doing the fly – by thing at the Bahgdad Hilton.

Another statement long on opinion and conjecture, but short of any demonstrable facts. Please give cites – and cites that are distinctly objective as well.

However, the number of people who died as a result of the war — whether from our military or from the insurgency which resulted from the invasion — is certainly in the tens of thousands. Bush used the 30,000 figure last year, while Foreign Affairs suggested the number is north of 100,000.

Innocent people died under Hussein, and at least as many innocent people are dying today. I don’t know how anyone could point to this as progress. At least under Hussein, we did not bear any moral responsibility for the deaths of innocent lives.