Somehow I ended up in a discussion today with a friend over the War in Iraq and I found myself trying to up-end the multitude of lies thrust into his brain by the Drudge Report

Now mind you, this friend is well read and intelligent so in moving the debate forward there was always the “prove it” or “link me” factor to any of the arguments I was providing. Among the things that he found shocking was that Bush/Cheney themselves had admitted that 1) the pre-war intelligence on WMD was wrong and they “misspoke” and 2) there was no operational relationship (or relationship whatsoever) between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. Those two ideas set the stage for the war so if you break these down then you break the basis for the war down, essentially. Doing a brief search tonight I, thankfully, ran again across Mother Jones’ excellent Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline - which has got to be essential reading for those of you just joining the anti-war party we’re having (better late than never).