This jaw-dropping passage was from a Washington Post editorial on Thursday:
"Iraq is a country of diverse communities; if its differences are not arbitrated by some form of democratic politics, then it can be held together only by brute force. The wielder of that force is likely to be hostile to the democratic world and, like Saddam Hussein or the mullahs of neighboring Iran, to seek defense by means of terrorism or weapons of mass destruction."
Could it be that this most venerable newspaper is spewing the very same discredited lies as the VP?: specifically that Iraq had WMD and/or terrorist ties under Saddam. It appears so.
I'm stunned and a little chilled to read this.