Let’s just classify Zarqawi’s martyrdom as an assisted suicide.
How quickly things change. Top White House aide Karl Rove was under investigation in the CIA leak probe for years – the investigation will mark its third anniversary this fall. But then, on June 13, faster than you can say “frogmarch,” we learned that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided not to take any action against the president’s chief political adviser. It was certainly a big relief for Rove and the White House – just consider the political misery that would have accompanied any charges against Rove – but it was an even bigger disappointment for Democrats who had been hoping to see, in the immortal words of former ambassador Joseph Wilson, “Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.” So what’s next? Democrats are clearly upset that such a high-profile investigation has yielded just one indictment (Lewis Libby) for perjury and no charges of any underlying crime. Trying to salvage whatever is left of the “scandal,” New York senator Charles Schumer wants a full report from Fitzgerald so that anyone involved who wasn’t charged might still be, in Schumer’s words, “given the appropriate punishment.” But Democrats should face reality. If this investigation ends without any more charges, it will be time for them to give it up and move on. That’s what they used to say, isn’t it? Move on?
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