Eye-popping column in the Washington Post by Richard Cohen. Key quote: 'More to the point is the administration's Westmorelandish insistence on asserting the insupportable -- that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the United States because he was linked to terrorism and armed to the teeth with those awful weapons. There is no truth to that -- none'.

You have to blink hard at this one. No link to terror? What about Saddam's funding and training of Palestinian terrorists? What about his involvement in the attempted assassination of President Bush 1 and the Emir of Kuwait, along with numerous other outrages? And as for the wretched WMD, what about David Kay's recent report detailing a huge clandestine biological programme, kept secret even after the war had started -- not to mention all the CBW stuff that two sets of inspectors said remained unaccounted for?

Still, I suppose if you tell a lie loudly enough and often enough, and in the Washington Post, it becomes the truth.

Posted by melanie at October 16, 2003