Double Duplicity
The war in Iraq

On his blog MSNBC's Chris Matthews raised an important point awhile back that I missed at Hardblogger: In curious case of Plamegate, serious questions remain :

But the deception didn't stop with false claims about nuclear weapons, aluminum tubes, and mobile labs for chemical and biological warfare. The Administration promised to make a genuine effort at the U.N., put together a real coalition, give the inspectors time, and send enough troops if there was an invasion. Instead, they treated the U.N. as window-dressing and humiliated Colin Powell by sending him there to mouth a dishonest speech. They assembled a faux coalition, short-circuited the inspectors and all but fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for reporting that they weren't sending enough troops.

Kerry has tried to get this message out, but the mainstream media has not given it much coverage. Many Democrats (and Republicans) voted to give Bush authority to use force in Iraq only AFTER certain actions were taken. Even if you accept the shakey premise that Bushies really believed the misinformation they fed Congress & the public, there is no getting around the fact they lied about their intended course of action.