The sad thing about the indictment of Scooter is that he was nailed for perjury and not for war crimes. An important article by Max Fuller (“For Iraq, the ‘Salvador Option’ Becomes Reality”) provides a chilling summary of the evidence for mass murder and death squad activity in Iraq being carried out by America’s Shiite fundamentalist allies. New mass graves are turning up everywhere in Iraq, and they aren’t Saddam’s doing. Instead, as Fuller’s brilliant piece argues, they are killings conducted by Iraqi police commandos and “state terrorism by the Ministry of the Interior,” as a leading Sunni oppositionist says.

I’ve written (far less comprehensively) about this, too. Kudos to Fuller.

Instead of worrying so much about damage to Valerie Plame Wilson’s career, the media ought to be worrying about the real consequences of I. Lying Libby’s deceit: the deaths, in Iraq, or tens of thousands.