Josh Marshall's Administration Lies Project

Marshall is going to devote some of the week to documenting the case for the conclusion that the administration lied in the run-up to the Iraq war. With the extreme right spinning up its revisionist marketing campaign, this is an important project. It might seem futile or superfluous, but it isn't. There are still people out there who don't really understand what happened (read: weren't paying attention), and there needs to be someplace they can go to get the straight dope in a nice neat bundle. They'll be deluged with propaganda and marketing tricks from the right. We need to combat this campaign with the facts. And, incidentally, if in compiling the facts we come to recognize that we've made a mistake and the administration didn't lie, then so much the better. Oh frabjous day. Beer's on me. But I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Anyway, good job, Josh.

To quote Orwell:

That the truth is great and will prevail is a prayer rather than an axiom.