AND so we learn it was former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage - Australia's best friend in the US - not the Bush White House who was the first to out Valerie Plame as a CIA employee. With this knowledge is demolished yet another left-liberal fantasy about George W. Bush. The ironies of the situation are endless, exquisite and, for some, extremely painful. Ms Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a former US diplomat who went to Niger before the Iraq war to examine allegations that Iraq had sought uranium there. From Mr Wilson's own account, his...
