The Lies People Tell

What is it with the anti-war side that continues to insist, against all evidence from the time (as I quote here), that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to get us into war with Iraq?

Here's another rebuttal to this tiresome line.

I'm still not convinced that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq in 2002. I still think we have not written the final chapter on this topic.

But there should be no doubt that had Saddam's regime survived, he would have made good on his bluff that he had chemical weapons by actually producing chemical weapons again.

The really funny thing about the "Bush lied" lie is that the WMD "lie" was almost universally believed by even war opponents--war opponents just didn't think it was worth it to go to war over Saddam's possession of WMD and thought the chaos of the post-war would lead to the loss of control of those WMD and unintentional proliferation to terrorist groups!

Is this the best stuff the so-called "reality-based community" can come up with on this topic? Yeah, pretty much. But they make up for it with stubborn refusal to adjust their charges to reality--even seven years after the invasion, when we have won and are drawing down our forces.