Michael Barone has today’s must-read. It’s about the dashed hopes (and faulty reasoning) of those who see Bush as Nixon and Iraq as Vietnam:

In all this a key role was played by the press. Cries went up early for the appointment of a special prosecutor: Patrick Fitzgerald would be another Archibald Cox or Leon Jaworski. Eager to bring down another Republican administration, the editorialists of the New York Times evidently failed to realize that the case could not be pursued without asking reporters to reveal the names of sources who had been promised confidentiality. America’s newsrooms are populated largely by liberals who regard the Vietnam and Watergate stories as the great achievements of their profession. The peak of their ambition is to achieve the fame and wealth of great reporters like David Halberstam and Bob Woodward. But this time it was not Republican administration officials who went to prison. It was Judith Miller, then of the New York Times itself.

What a vivid example of how the Watergate-Vietnam crowd’s expectations were turned on their heads.

Byron York has more on the deep disappointment of “Plameologists” everywhere.