By revealing Plame’s identity as with the Iraq war, Whitehouse and GOP officials have lied to and manipulated the American public with the end result that American patriots are being hurt.  In the first case the Wilson’s have been slandered and their careers disrupted when they have given a lifetime of dangerous and difficult service to their country, and in Iraq American service men and women continue to die and suffer wounds in a war initiated on the falsehoods Wilson sought to expose.  Both revealing Plame’s identity and the Iraq war have made the United States less safe, one by directly compromising the ability of our nation’s intelligence services to protect us from the threat of a terrorist attack using WMDs, and the other by creating a no-win bloody conflict that has created the best terrorist training ground where there was none before.  The Bush presidency has failed to capture the main enemies of America, has created countless new ones, and routinely casts American patriots who oppose their reckless and self-serving actions as traitors.