Our Deep Throats

Our leader, Ms. H, asks today for the floodgates to open and "our" Deep Throats to emerge, to start leaking the truth about our war in Iraq. Good idea. One problem: they already did, and nobody, or almost nobody listened.

Ever heard of Greg Thielmann? He should be at least as famous as W. Mark Felt by now. A few stories about him surfaced during the time it mattered, the runup to the war, when he, and his British and Australian colleagues (Dr. Brian Jones and Andrew Willkie) tried to alert us all to the falsity of the intel on which the invasion was based. Their experiences raise the question: what if a whistleblower risks his all to warn his countrymen, and nobody listens? Deep Throat would have been useless without a Deep Ear.

When David Kay, the President's hand-picked man to run the Iraq Survey Group, came back from his search for WMD, he said, "we were all wrong".

He was wrong.