What is that odor?

The skunks continue to come out of the woods.

Former CIA director George Tenet, who had the gall to accept the Medal Of Freedom from George W. Bush, has now written a book--At the Center of the Storm--in which he admits he knew that Bush and Cheney were faking their vaunted reasons for attacking Iraq. He kept his mouth shut when he could have spoken out and put the brakes on the White House madness that already has killed 3,337 US troops and possibly one million Iraqis.

So yesterday's silence has turned into today's book, and Tenet has received a $4 million advance on it.

He's not the only source of those gagging odors in the air either. Colin Powell could have stepped on the brakes too. And now Senator Dick Durbin tells us that he and his colleagues on the Intelligence Committee had information different from what Bush and Cheney were disbursing. He says they did not speak out because they were sworn to secrecy. What?

If ever we needed strong winds to blow through the land...