Lots of Blame-Shifting on the Niger/Iraq Forgery

The CIA asked Britain to drop it's Iraq claim while President Bush said that the CIA "I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services."
    Remember that Bush's State of the Union address didn't claim that the US believed that Iraq was buying nuclear material from Niger or other African countries. It said that British intelligence thought Iraq was. Shifting responsibility for the claim gave the Bush team the wiggle room to include an allegation they knew was probably not true. It's the triumph of politics over truth.
    As I've written before, there is a political brillance to the Bush Presidency. The Administration knows that it can sway large portions of the American public just by making claims. It doesn't matter if the claims are wrong --even obviously wrong-- as long as they feed into some deep psychic narrative. It's been awhile since we saw a President that could bully through reality as long as the story sounded good. Ronald Reagan, the ex-actor, was good at it but I'm suspecting our current President is even better. The question is whether enough people will start insisting on the truth and demand investigations into the lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and President Bush knew it. The American people would not have gone to war if we had known that Iraq wasn't a threat and this too President Bush knew.