Odd that Sen. Harry Reid sees Libby’s conviction as some sort of penance for intelligence chicanery that led us to war (“It’s about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics.” ), when Sen. Reid himself on the Senate floor once argued to go to war with Saddam on causes in addition to fear of weapons of mass destruction-like Saddam’s violation of past armistice accords that had resulted in a de facto war, which now (October 2002) needed to be finished by the US. So Reid:

“We stopped the fighting [in 1991] based on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.”

So between 1991 and 2002, in the no-fly zone days, various officials nefariously had convinced Reid that Saddam was violating agreements when he was not?