Editorial: Memorial Day/Praise bravery, seek forgiveness
Registration required, but worth it. The words "Bush" and "lied" together in an editorial, and goes on to talk about the Downing Street memo, which I hope will be on everyone's lips before the end of the summer. (but I'm not holding my breath) Gentlemen, start your impeachment engines!

In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don't expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.

Anybody in America with a memory of Richard Nixon should know to expect "untruths" from those in power. That's why this blind worship of Bush (and Reagan before him, and maybe some extent Bill Clinton, who I had no problem criticizing when he pissed me off) baffles me so.