L-I-A-R-S

War criminals, assholes, and McCain's biggest supporters:

A long-awaited Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public Thursday concludes that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available intelligence.

A companion report found that a special office set up by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld undertook "sensitive intelligence activities" that were inappropriate "without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department."

“Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced. Unfortunately, our Committee has concluded that the administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence,” said committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, D- W. Va.

It's long been known that the administration's claims in the runup to the Iraq war, from Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al Qaida to whether Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program, were incorrect. But the Senate report is the first official examination of whether the president and vice president knew that their claims were incorrect at the time they made them.

That the President and Vice-President of the United States falsely led a nation to war is the kind of thing one would think would get some media attention. Good ol' McClatchy comes through at least.

Ah, but the enabling act of the subsequent lies, the 9/11 attack has some of its accused protagonists going to court today. What a coincidence.

Wonder what they can prove that wasn't tortured out of them...again on Bush's orders.