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In addition to the other eminently sound reasons why the latest Administration line about Al Qa Qaa is YABL, Josh Marshall misses possibly the most obvious. What are the odds that, if Saddam's people had indeed absconded with 350 tons of high explosives before the U.S. took Baghdad, the Administration would not have trumpeted it from the rooftops? After all, while they might not have been WMDs per se, they were known quantities of Very Bad Stuff. Along with mass graves and other pararphernalia of dictatorship, the missing explosives would have high propaganda value. Yet the Bush Administration said nothing--indeed, by all accounts it actively sought to suppress evidence of Saddam's perfidiousness, if this latest line is to be believed. Right. And I invented the Internet.

Remember when "I didn't have sex with that woman" was the height of bald-faced Presidential effrontery, the gold standard against which all other shameless prevarications fell short? It was the lie that launched a thousand moralistic little shits. Remember? Good times, that. Now it's like being trapped in the "To Jupiter and Beyond" segment of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with lies flying past so fast, time itself begins to warp, and it's hard enough just to hang onto one's own sanity.

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