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Guess who’s the latest member of the David Petraeus fan club? None other than our Hillary:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a relatively rare shout-out to the military’s top man in Baghdad, General David Petraeus, calling him “an extraordinary leader and a wonderful advocate for our military.”

Last we heard she still plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, but between applauding McCain’s readiness to be commander-in-chief and praising Petraeus, she’s starting to look more and more like a Joe Lieberman every day. (Of course, she still has a long way to go to get to where he is today. But then so did he, once upon a time.)

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So Scooter Libby has been disbarred:

Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was disbarred today by a District of Columbia court that ruled that his convictions last year for perjury and obstructing justice in a White House leak investigation disqualify him from practicing law.

Disbarment apparently was automatic, since Scooter was judged to be guilty of “crimes of moral turpitude”.

Somebody is sure to ask the White House to comment. The White House, of course, will be unable to. The only point of interest is what reason they’ll give this time.

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In case you missed this, John McCain is now found to have also made his famous “Iranians have been helping al Qaeda” assertion on Feb. 28th (at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, TX):

But Al Qaeda is there, they are functioning, they are supported in many times, in many ways by the Iranians.

That’s more than three weeks that John McCain has consistently got the basic sectarian dynamic in Iraq backwards.

But there he was, on NBC, lying as smoothly as ever, claiming that he just mis-spoke:

In an interview yesterday with NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) dismissed criticism of his multiple false claims that Iranian operatives are “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back” by claiming that he “corrected it immediately.” “I don’t claim that I won’t misspeak on occassion, but I will correct it immediately,” said McCain.

Asked if it’s “a fair question” to wonder if it was more than “simply a slip of a tongue,” McCain replied that “to think that I would have some lack of knowledge about Sunni and Shia after my eighth visit and my deep involvement in this issue is a bit ludicrous.”