We Knew that Already

AlterNet cites a newly declassified State Department memo as definitive proof Bush's '16 words' were lies. Yawn.

Sixteen days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa -- an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war -- the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.

The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored documents information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq.

Not that real evidence will convince the people that still believe Bush is incapable of lying. (It's a matter of faith.) And don't expect to hear that 'hard evidence' proves Bush lied America into a war to be splashed across the TV screens.

Yawn. The scary thing is that not only does this not shock me, I can't seem to summon up any outrage either. The Bush Administration can really tire you out. I expect so little from them that when they fail to meet even that standard, I'm just numb...

It's really nice out. Maybe I'll skip out of work a little early...

George W. Bush State of the Union War in Iraq