I said it some time ago, The blame on Plame is mainly on the dame.

But Mark Steyn says it better:

But in the real world there's only one scandal in this whole wretched business -- that the CIA, as part of its institutional obstruction of the administration, set up a pathetic ''fact-finding mission'' that would be considered a joke by any serious intelligence agency and compounded it by sending, at the behest of his wife, a shrill politically motivated poseur who, for the sake of 15 minutes' celebrity on the cable gabfest circuit, misled the nation about what he found.

I don't know much about Mrs. Plame-Wilson, but if she's in love with Joe Wilson, she can't be all that bright. I too wondered, once I understood what the background on this story was, why the CIA and Plame weren't being fried in the media for sending this joker to Niger to investigate WMD. He obviously didn't do much, and then came home and became a Democrat hitman. His greatest claim to fame is that he gave the world the "Bush lied!" meme, which never has made any sense to anybody who understands the meaning of the word "lied." The left is so frenzied in its desire to bring down Bush that it lobbied for a scandal that has blown back in the faces of two of its major organs, Time and the NYTimes. Couldn't be more richly deserved.

But wait. There's more! Steyn is at his best when he describes what we really should be worrying about other than imaginary scandals:

Here's the thing: They're still pulling body parts from London's Tube tunnels. Too far away for you? No local angle? OK, how about this? Magdy el-Nashar. He's a 33-year old Egyptian arrested Friday morning in Cairo, and thought to be what they call a ''little emir'' -- i.e., the head honcho in the local terrorist cell, the one who fires up the suicide bombers. Until his timely disappearance, he was a biochemist studying at Leeds University and it's in his apartment the London bombs were made. Previously he was at North Carolina State University.

So this time round he blew up London rather than Washington. Next time, who knows? Who cares? Here's another fellow you don't read much about in America: Kamel Bourgass. He had a plan to unleash ricin in London. Fortunately, the cops got wind of that one and three months ago he was convicted and jailed. Just suppose, instead of the British police raiding Bourgass' apartment but missing el-Nashar's, it had been the other way around, and ricin had been released in aerosol form on the Tube.

Kamel Bourgass and Magdy el-Nashar are real people, not phantoms conjured by those lyin' sonsofbitches Bush and Cheney. And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology. One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood. Here's another story you may have missed this week:

''Iran will resume uranium enrichment if the European Union does not recognize its right to do so, two Iranian nuclear negotiators said in an interview published Tuesday.''

Got that? If you don't let us go nuclear, we'll go nuclear. Negotiate that, John Kerry. As with Bourgass and el-Nashar, Hossein Moussavian and Cyrus Nasseri are real Iranian negotiators, not merely the deranged war fantasies of Bush and Cheney.

Read the whole thing. If we had any real objective media in this country, they'd be echoing Steyn and demanding to know why the CIA is working against the interests of the nation with political games instead of doing its job, and why the Democrats are acting like a bunch of disloyal hyenas standing around waiting for someone else to bring down the administration so they can run in and feast.