When the president and vice-president have to launch a PR offensive to deny that they lied to get us into the war, the debate is over. And we won. A year too late, but better late than never.
Any doubts left? Then please note that the PR offensive is greeted by the formerly quiescent MSM with headlines such as this: “In challenging war’s critics, administration tinkers with truth,” and copy such as this:
The administration’s overarching premise is beyond dispute — administration officials, Democratic and Republican lawmakers and even leaders of foreign governments believed intelligence assessments that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That intelligence turned out to be wrong. But Bush, Cheney, and other senior officials have added several other arguments in recent days that distort the factual record. Below, Knight Ridder addresses the administration's main assertion …