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Looks like it is finally getting some traction in the Washington Post. If you've been paying attention, you've known for years that Bush took us to war on hyped intelligence and lies. Any doubts about that theory were removed when the Downing Street memo hit the British press a few weeks back. But thanks to a runaway bride, the filibuster fiasco, and the Newsweek nonevent, the story hasn't received much coverage. Slowly, but surely, that's changing. Today it's A1 on the Washington Post.

The entire article is worth a few minutes of your time, but here's a highlight:

Moreover, a close reading of the recent 600-page report by the president's commission on intelligence, and the previous report by the Senate panel, shows that as the war approached many U.S. intelligence analysts were internally questioning almost every major piece of prewar intelligence about Hussein's alleged weapons programs. These included claims that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium in Africa for its nuclear program, had mobile labs for producing biological weapons, ran an active chemical weapons program and possessed unmanned aircraft that could deliver weapons of mass destruction. All these claims were made by Bush or then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in public addresses even though, the reports made clear, they had yet to be verified by U.S. intelligence agencies.

First Downing Street admits that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Now we get "claims were made... that had yet to be verified by U.S. intelligence agencies."

How can anyone support these people? I mean, it would be one thing if their post-war plan had been a stunning success. But first you lie, then you fail?

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