WTF Is It Now?!?

How can you tell he's lying?
His lips are moving.

Snipped from Gene Lyons' coumn: Monday, Junior argued that he'd given Saddam Hussein "a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in." Evidently, he's forgotten the elaborate diplomatic charade leading up to his own March 2003 speech warning U.N. inspectors out before the bombing began.

To comprehend the stygian depths of the administration's mendacity, however, it helps to begin on Sept. 7, 2002, when Junior and British Prime minister Tony Blair appeared at the White House together. Bush alleged that a "new" IAEA report (International Atomic Energy Agency) stated that Iraq was "six months away" from building a nuclear weapon. "I don't know what more evidence we need," he added.

"Absolutely," Blair seconded.

No such report ever existed, as our brilliant Washington press corps, as John R. MacArthur points out in the Columbia Journalism Review, didn't exactly knock itself out reporting.

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