Rick:

This is all part of the Washington game to get your point of view spun in the press. I am sure there are a number of people who are disillusioned that Iraq is messier then they thought it would be. Everybody knows that inside sources talk to reporters then support their views in the hopes that they can get a media tidal wave that forces the administration to move in their direction.

As much as I dislike Robert Novak, he is a Republican and he is a Conservative. However, he is also extremely anti-Semitic, which probably comes from growing up in an east European Chicago neighborhood. There is another Chicago born columnist with some of the same prejudices, Georgie Ann Geyer, who during the Balkan Wars took umbrage at peacekeepers protecting a Serb cemetery in Croatia from defilement. She felt that the Croats ought to be allowed to remove a symbol of their WWII enemies. She is also virulently anti-Semitic as well.