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She won't go after him..the media will. "Were you duped by Chalabi?"

The number of times they met will be news. My point is McCain is a hawk. His domestic politics are the only thing that separates him from Bush. If he imagines that Bush and Cheney and the whole Iraq enterprise can get discredited with Plamegate and he won't feel it, he's nuts.

MARCH 31?, 2005 : (ROBB-SILBERMAN BIPARTISAN COMMISSION REPORT SAYS DEFECTOR "CURVEBALL," WIDELY ATTRIBUTED TO BEING LINKED TO THE INC- WAS NOT INFLUENCED, CONTROLLED BY OR CONNECTED TO THE INC - See CHALABI) The most damning charge is that he cooked up the phony intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq. In the words of that noted foreign policy sage Maureen Dowd: "Ahmad Chalabi conned his neocon pals, thinking he could run Iraq if he gave the Bush administration the smoking gun it needed to sell the war." Such calumnies are so ingrained by now that La Dowd published that sentence on Sunday [April 3, 2005], three days after the release of the Robb-Silberman report that refutes it. The bipartisan commission headed by Chuck Robb and Laurence Silberman did not give Chalabi a totally clean bill of health. It found that two INC-supplied defectors were "fabricators." But it also determined that the most notorious liar popularly linked to the INC — a defector known as "Curveball" who provided false information on Saddam Hussein's biological weapons — "was not influenced by, controlled by, or connected to the INC." "In fact, over all," the Robb-Silberman report concluded, "CIA's postwar investigations revealed that INC-related sources had a minimal impact on prewar assessments." Translation: The CIA's attempts to scapegoat Chalabi for its own failures won't wash.------ "The friend we betrayed - (in defense of Ahmad Chalabi),"MAX BOOT, JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM, APRIL 8, 2005 Friday, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380149/posts