invading iran for WMDs human rights abuses

* rawstory: "Two sources familiar with the case said Armitage, Rove and Libby all had contacts with the press about Plame. Unlike Rove and Libby, Armitage appears to have tried to dissuade reporters from writing about her.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald recently had to sneak Armitage into a Washington courthouse to get past reporters - a sign of his value in the case, according to one source."

* emptywheel: "So what do you suppose the real reason for the big investment in James Tobin's defense was? What was it that was so incriminating that the Republicans would spend three-fifths of what they're spending to protect Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and George Bush?"

* juan cole weighs in on the "iranian badges" story.

* Cole points to The Star:

The National Post today sank about as low as a newspaper can go, essentially constructing a sensational and emotionally-charged story out of little or nothing, upsetting millions all over the world and probably making it much harder for a peaceful outcome with Iran to be achieved.

It did it by exploiting the Holocaust, no less.

I speak, of course, of its shocking front-page story today, Iran Eyes Badges For Jews. (The link now seems to have died. But here's a matcher from the Jerusalem Post and another one from the right wing NewsMax.)

Writ large across six columns, with a poignant black-and-white photo of an unnamed Hungarian Jewish couple (c. 1944) wearing their Nazi-imposed yellow stars, the story has made world news. Of course, it has exploded through the blogosphere, giving the right wingdings new reason to call for a war on Iran."

* even steven harper jumped in, despite knowing that the story is false:

"The prime minister couldn't vouch for the accuracy of the newspaper report, but he added that Iran was capable of such actions and compared them to Nazi practices.

"Unfortunately, we've seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," Harper said."

it looks like canada with join the brave duo of australia and the US in invading iran for WMDs human rights abuses