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It's the usual cast of rejects and slack-jawed cretins trying to convince us that Iraq was completely justified because "the Dems said so too!" Via AMERICAblog, The Washington Post eviscerates that argument:

President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.

Neither assertion is wholly accurate....

Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material. And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions.

In fact, the intel that Bush had was riddled with caveats and cautionary notes, meaning that the agencies were uncertain of the veracity of the claims. The intel shown to Congress, however, was rewritten to turn all of the tenuous claims into rock-hard certainties. My ass, they didn't sex-up the intel.

The factcheck turnaround here is blisteringly fast. This is an indication that at least some in the media are noticing that Bush and his cronies are constantly lying and obfuscating. It's just too bad that no one can update shitspring, JUmpersAway, and drclean's brains on the fly. Even the gloriously misnamed ProgressivePete is thorougly snowed by these liars. Hey, jagoffs, your talking points have been decimated. Time to go back to the well.

JC