While the rest of the mainstream media competes with itself to see who can kiss Bush's ass the best, Juan Cole figures
somebody just might get a Pulitzer out of exposing this adminstration for what it is - and it might as well be him. Here he is in today's Salon.com, framing the central question of what may finally turn out to be our gemeration's Watergate scandal:
"A good half of Americans, opinion polls show, now believe that the president actively lied to them about Iraq. In another, less cynical, flag-waving and intimidated age, this conclusion would provoke a scandal. The question would be, What did George W. Bush decide about Iraq, and when did he decide it?"
Here's the rest of the article: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/19/lies/index.html
Good old Juan Cole. Nobody's done more to get the truth out about the war in Iraq than he has - and he's done it all without the sponsorship of an established media outlet.