lies about iraq

Juan Cole has it right. "(O)n the subject of Iraq, the way you can tell when Bush is lying is that his mouth is moving."

We're almost at 1700 dead Americans and who knows how many Iraqi civilians, an insurgency that Dick "we'll be greeted as liberators" Cheney now thinks might be defeated by January 2009, an American army that is being ground to bits by the tempo of operations in Iraq, and no way out.

Of course, as the Downing Street memo, former White House counterterrorism chief Dick Clarke, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and many others have made clear, the lies about Iraq started well before now.

And we re-elected him. Well, I didn't, but somebody did.