In the last few days we've learned:
- The Bush Admin rejected negotiation overtures from Iraqi government in run-up to invasion.
- Jessica Lynch was used by the U.S. Ministry of Disinformation to promote the war.
- The Bush Admin is denying court-ordered compensation to U.S. POWs who were tortured by the Saddam regime after the Persian Gulf War.
- Even Richard Armitage (Asst. Secy. of State) admits the U.S. is walking a fine line between liberator and occupier.
- The terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has us once again embracing one of the regimes that Bush just got through saying must change to survive. (Anyone else see the irony provided by the terror attack right after his speech about oppressive regimes in the Middle East? Or did he not mean to include his family friends, the Saudi royal clan?)
- Newsweek reports Cheney cherry picked the WMD intel to justify the war. (Hersch's piece was much better, but not as widely published as Newsweek).
Just haphazard little stories here and there. Add in the ongoing threads: the Plame affair, "Mission Accomplished", the WMD lies, how Bush ignored intel of terror attacks planned for the U.S. pre-9/11, etc. and one can practically hear the girders upon which this whole Iraq war was built groaning as they start to give way under the weight of all the falsehoods, prevarications, distortions, and hidden truths. The poll numbers will be getting worse and worse on Bush's handling of Iraq due to the mounting casualties (call Americans nothing if not fickle: did they really think we'd get through this without losing a bunch of our boys and girls?). All Bush's popularity rests with 9/11 and the aftermath: live by the sword, die by the sword. Exactly how it plays out is anyone's guess, but the ending itself is almost inevitable...
With Watergate, the news cycle moved much slower, and it was about 6 months too late to prevent Nixon from beating McGovern. One gets the sense now that time is not on the side of the Liar in Chief.