AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
(12/05/05

The War Party certainly has its party line down pat. In response to allegations that he had deliberately misinformed the Americans about Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction' and alleged links to al-Qaeda, Ahmed Chalabi recently declared: 'The fact that I misled the U.S. is an urban myth.' The same phrase popped up when an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney denied that his boss was the recipient of bogus 'intelligence' in the run-up to war, or is in any way beholden to the neocons: ''That's an urban myth,' said this aide, who declined to be identified.' This is a longtime favorite theme song sung by government officials who would rather not even discuss an inconvenient issue, and it often works, but not so well these days. The stench of fraud -- and worse -- is rising over Washington so that the whole city seems permeated by a permanent miasma, a poisonous cloud so thick that denials seem to stick in the throat even before they are uttered...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp