She's singing, Karl.

Karl Rove, please, do the right thing.

You screwed up, man. Yeah, by the strictest sense of the law, you are innocent. But you confirmed the identity (yeah, we know you didn't user her name) of a covert CIA agent. And you did it at a time of war. To a reporter. That's a faux pas that can't be overlooked.

Yes, Joseph Williams is a pinhead with an agenda. We know he lied about his wife not being responsible for his getting the "Yellow-cake from Niger" assignment. We know his findings as reported to Congress contradicted his own filed report. Old Joey is a liar and a schmuck.

But none of that excuses your infringement of our national security -- no matter how pushy a broad Ambassador William's wife is.

Me? I'm still a true believer. There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Hussein did have an on-going WMD program. And, as far as I have been able to determine, there were assorted chemical and biological weapons deployed on mobile platforms just days before the allied forces marched into Baghdad. In The Secrect History of the Iraq war, Yossef Bodansky, a man vehemently against the Iraq invasion, documents the existence and movement of WMDs shortly before the war began. (Bodansky names no sources, unfortunately, but why would someone so against the war work so hard to document the existence of the WMD threat?)

But whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq when the war began, whether or not Joe Williams is a putz, whether or not the lady Williams wears the pants in the family... Karl, ya done wrong.

She's singing the last stanza, Karl.

Get off the stage before you are left all alone out there with your knickers showing.