Frank Rich puts it all in perspective.
In any administration the trick is to look cool, non-plused, but the patina of coolness often hides a lot of anxious, agitated and sometime angry commotion. As Rich notes, the reason for the anger at Joe Wilson was that id the Niger uranium thread was woven into a fantasy construction necessary to justify the invasion of Iraq.
He concludes:
"Next to White House courtiers of their rank, Mr. Wilson is at most a Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. The brief against the administration's drumbeat for war would be just as damning if he'd never gone to Africa. But by overreacting in panic to his single Op-Ed piece of two years ago, the White House has opened a Pandora's box it can't slam shut. Seasoned audiences of presidential scandal know that there's only one certainty ahead: the timing of a Karl Rove resignation. As always in this genre, the knight takes the fall at exactly that moment when it's essential to protect the king."
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