Liars

This was always Bush's fatal flaw, the whole Administration's.

They lie. It's how they're built. Every time George W. Bush moves his lips, a lie slips out.

A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.

And they keep circulating the liars back through, even the foolish ones.

Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters.

It's all on video here with MSN's Countdown, including Bush three months ago escalating rhetoric to WWIII. When he must have known of this report.

What is left of Bush/Cheney's previously shattered credibility? Not even the shards? It'll come clear that they've known this for at least a year. Maybe Cheney or John Bolton will try to start the war anyway, just fire something into Iran. Are these suckers whipped, or instead ready to push the button if only to justify their position. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm guessing that this came out because of Poppy's mole, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. So if the Democratic sweep in 2006 did anything, it got rid of Donald Rumsfeld and maybe saved the Republican.

As Josh Marshall so correctly summarizes:

But it shows us once again, for anyone who needed showing, that everything this administration says on national security matters should be considered presumptively not only false, but actually the opposite of what is in fact true, until clear evidence to the contrary becomes available. They're big liars. And actually being serious about the country's security means doing everything possible to limit the amount of damage they can do over the next fourteen months while they still control the US military and the rest of the nation's foreign policy apparatus.

If only the bigger the lie, the bigger the damnation.

But come January 20, 2008, watch Junior skate.