Lyric discussion by gritona 

Cover art for Valerie Plame lyrics by Decemberists, The

Well see the thing is, what happened is, the vice president of the united states, mr.cheney got mad at Valerie's husband because he said there is no yellow cake uranium in Nigeria, something like that, which messed up plans for flim flamming the country into going to war on Iraq. So what this very loathsome old man did, he blew the cover of the guy's wife, who was an undercover cia agent named Valerie Plame. That's why I came her, cause i could not quite get what the song is saying.

So if it's true the guy thought it was a good name to put in a song, well, that's kind of a problem. Because what we have here is the vice president of the u.s. committed treason, for which he would have faced a firing squad not that long ago. And probably should have anyway- not just for this but many other things too.

The other thing though is it hurt Valerie very bad- really ended her career in fact. While cheney gets off, allowing this guy scooter to take the fall for him.

I like the song too. It's just i'd like it more if it did not seem to be mocking the real Valerie, which makes it sound kinda mean. I hope cheney don't hear it- he'd just laugh at poor Valerie again

You all can watch many youtubes of her testifying to a congressional committee, and talikg to reporters and stuff.