Bush Case for Iraq War “In Shreds”; Thousands Dead

Washington Post points out something we knew, but an interesting analysis nonetheless; in an election year, can Bush totally escape blame for what is directly his fault? Can you lie your way into a war that kills a thousand Americans and then get elected?

Yesterday’s report by the Senate intelligence committee left in shreds two of the Bush administration’s main rationales for the war in Iraq: that Iraq had illicit weapons and that it cooperated with al Qaeda.