Separated at Birth

Robert Dreyfuss has a clever post over at The Dreyfuss Report where he asks the question: Are I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby and Ibn Al-Shaikh al-Libi related? Are they brothers?

I don't want to speculate about whether al-Libi's father had several wives, and whether one of them was Scooter's mother. But the coincidences seem all too real. In America, we have I. "Lying" Libby making up stuff about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda and peddling those lies to stampede Congress and the public into supporting the Bush administration's war. And over in the Middle East, our forces conveniently capture a man named "Libi," who is then shipped from Afghanistan to Egypt, tortured, and then comes up with the very same lies that "Libby" was pushing. It was "Libi's" lies, produced under torture, that gave "Libby" the ability to claim that Iraq was training Al Qaeda in chemical and biological weapons. That charge, of course, was a cornerstone of the terrorism-WMD nexus that gave nervous liberal hawks a reason to support Bush's illegal war.

Dreyfuss concludes that the new term for liberals who supported the war in Iraq may be "Libbys." That's a possibility, but Dreyfuss should check with Libby at The Impolitic before he paints all Libbys with the same brush.

Update: Impolitic Libby also blogs for the DetNews. I love her style, and the fact that she is not afraid to mince words. This post definitely puts to rest the notion that Libbys are liberals who support the Iraq war.

Let me say this slowly for the war supporters, so it can sink in. We are not safer from terrorism by being in Iraq. While we're fighting them "there," there's no one left "here" to protect us...

You hear a lot about how people "volunteer" for military service and know what they're volunteering for, but what you don't hear from the war apologists is how they're being told one thing by the recruiters and instead end up virtually conscripted for life. In any event, calling up these Individual Ready Reservists, after decades without training, can hardly be construed as troop readiness. And if they're scraping like this to get warm bodies to send over "there," who do you think is left to protect us "here?"

We have multiple deferment Cheney et al to protect us. That should make it easier for us to sleep at night, eh?