Database of Dubious Declarations

Henry Waxman, who happens to be my Congressman, has set up an online database of faulty statements made by Bush administration officials about the war in Iraq. It's called Iraq on the Record.

I happen to think Democrats are making too great an effort to take every statement that turned out to be untrue (or even possibly untrue) and portray it as a deliberate, premeditated lie. Much of America is not going to buy that grown men and women in the White House conspired to be so inaccurate. They will, however, accept that all these predictions and unsupported facts show some sort of massive screw-up; that this country went to war with its leaders believing and acting upon a shocking amount of bad intelligence, and ignoring an awful lot that turned out to be accurate. If I were Kerry, I'd be talking a lot less about lying and a lot more about good, old-fashioned incompetence.