During the Bush era, it used to drive me nuts when I'd hear an obnoxious Democratic politician or pundit on television emphatically insisting that George W. Bush had "lied" about Weapons of Mass Destruction to take us to war in Iraq. It didn't seem to matter how many fellow Democrats in congress had drawn the same conclusion as Bush did from the national intelligence reports. It didn't seem to matter how many other countries' intelligence agencies drew the same conclusion as ours did. It didn't seem to matter that the Clinton administration had made the same claim. The notion that Bush "lied" was mainstreamed through the media and became conventional wisdom among many on the left. For whatever reason, it wasn't good enough for them to accept that the administration was