It really is a race to the bottom of the stupid pit for the GOP, ain't it:
Mitt Romney threw another big ol' history rewrite not even five minutes into the show when he was asked if he'd support attacking Iraq knowing what we all know now.
"Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that--or a null set--that is that if you're saying let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in.
"But he didn't do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in."
Hoffmania goes on to cite the truth re: the inspectors, for those of us in the reality based community.
Meanwhile, a Tiny Revolution, citing Andrew Cockburn, notes an ugly truth about the hyperbole surrounding Iraq and WMD that tends to get glossed over by pretty much everyone...becuase, in addition to making Team Bush look like cynical dipshits--what else is new?--it casts Team Clinton in a less than flattering and cynical light. It's well worth looking at.
Actually, what continues to amaze me is the gullibility of the media re: WMD, specifically chemical weapons. It's as if they've never noticed or otherwise seen a chemical plant in their lives. Note to the media: chemical plants aren't small. They're big, ugly, and easily detectable. And, without them, you can't produce chemical weapons. Geez.
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