WTF Is It Now?!?

"Liar" removed from US dictionaries

"Even the president’s most conspicuous success, his war in Iraq, now appears to have been bogus from the beginning. No one is supposed to say that the administration lied about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in order to foment public support. The polite word is 'misled.' Either the Bushies were misled by faulty intelligence, or the Bushies misled the nation. Either way, the war and its aftermath will help to further inflate the gargantuan federal deficit, wrestled to a draw in the previous administration but now threatening to explode into the multitrillion-dollar range." - Anna Quindlen, in Newsweek.

"George W. Bush misled the nation into war.
Who says? Representative Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee.

On the basis of what? On the basis of information preliminarily reviewed by the intelligence committee as part of its ongoing investigation into the prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Her remarks received, as far as I can tell, little media attention. But they are dramatic in that these comments are the first findings from an official outlet confirming that Bush deployed dishonest rhetoric in guiding the United States to invasion and occupation in Iraq. This is not an op-ed judgment; this is an evaluation from a member of the intelligence committee who claims to be basing her statements on the investigative work of the committee." - David Corn, in The Nation.

Distorted Intelligence
Hundreds of pages of confidential German law-enforcement records raise new questions about the Bush administration’s core evidence purporting to show solid links between Osama bin Laden’s terror network and Saddam Hussein’s regime. - from MSNBC.


Thousands Died


The BBC strikes back in Iraq row
"Frankly I don't think the BBC needs to be taught lessons in the use of sources by a communications department which plagiarised a 12-year-old thesis and distributed unattributed." - BBC news director Richard Sambrook.