Lying Liars

Bush supporters often argue that they didn't lie (they find it such a distasteful word... at least, when applied to Republicans :-) about WMD. They would prefer to put it that they looked at the CIA evidence "like everyone else" and made the best decisions possible and, unfortunately, the evidence turned out to be not quite correct. That sounds pretty benign. They did the best they could with what they had. It might even pass the sniff test if, when they realized that the "evidence" wasn't correct, they corrected the record (something I think we have a moral obligation to do).

However, when they found out that they were wrong, they continued (or, at best, they began) to lie and I use the word advisedly -- for if you repeat your previous "mistake" or encourage others to continue to believe it after you know that it's not true, then you're a liar.

Josh Marshall has an article up which shows that there is not much doubt that the Bush administration have been proven to be liars. Check it out here. He concludes with...

Cheney's persistence in lying to the public about al Qaida and WMD claims is almost the stuff of legend. So even though the baldness of this lie still sort of grabs me, I can't say it's exactly shocking.

But again, Congress. For how many months did the White House continue to tell the Congress that the mobile bio-weapons story was true even while they knew it was false? For months? Or was it more like a year?