This is an excellent piece By Peter Wehner at
Opinion Journal
May 23, 2006
Revisionist History
Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters. Like swallows to Capistrano, they keep returning to the same allegations – the president misled the country in order to justify the Iraq war; his administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments; Saddam Hussein turned out to be no threat since he didn’t possess weapons of mass destruction; and helping democracy take root in the Middle East was a postwar rationalization. The problem with these charges is that they are false and can be shown to be so – and yet people continue to believe, and spread, them…
This is a great article to use for reference, but sadly, it won’t keep the liberals from repeating their mantras.