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Hmmm. As you most likely know, I certainly don't think Bush misled us (I was for crossing swords with Iraq far before 9/11). To repeat my worst case scenario...the intelligence agencies possibly lowered their threshold for what was a threat and what was not a threat in the wake of 9/11 after being tarred with the, "Oh my God you didn't tell us Arabs could fly planes into buildings instead of just hijacking them! You *bastards*!"

Still don't think it happened, though. Then again, I've never been to Iraq, so heck, the whole place might not even exist...the intelligence community has got to be steaming (or readying to unleash both barrels of WMD evidence at the proper time) over this.

As for the writer's apology, well, I'm not a great believe in apologies for biggies like this one. I'll take, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I dinged your car," but not, "I was duped by a super-secret non-existent con-man who was so good he fooled me for 20 years into thinking he was Special Ops."

Sounds more like they just needed heads to roll...