nobody asked…

We are all familiar with the well documented tangle of lies, deceit, and incompetence that is the Bush administration that took us into Iraq and kept us there at the expense of over 2,000 American lives, hundreds of billions of our dollars, and an estimated 30,000 civilian Iraqi casualties. “With the American death toll in Iraq approaching 2,100, skepticism about both about the administration’s case for war and the effectiveness of the war effort has been deepening. Public opinion is now decidedly against the war, an unease that has begun to erode confidence in Bush’s credibility, polls show.” That from Michael A. Fletcher of The Washington Post as reported in The Standard Times.

So much has been written and reported over the last couple of years that it is easy to get lost in the forest of lies, half-truths, and the myriad reports of same. Frank Paynter has posted a link that does a quite credible job of pulling it all together in one easy to swallow dose. Go and read Robert Scheer’s Novemeber 16 column titled The Big LieTechnique from The Nation.