Ted Rall: "Bush admits it - he lied"

I've enjoyed Ted Rall's commentary. It's true, he is probably the angriest liberal columnist I know of, and he sometimes overstates his case. Much like Rush, actually. ;) But if you can get past the histrionics, Rall does make some awful good points, and it's easy to understand why he's upset to the point of near-hysteria: Bush lied about his reasons for going to war in Iraq, and the American people have bought those lies, hook, line and sinker. It's maddening.

In his latest column, Rall writes:

"Nearly 500 American servicemen have been killed in the war against Iraq. At least 2,400 more have been wounded. We've killed so many Iraqis--tens of thousands, certainly--that the Pentagon can't keep count. We've borrowed more than $160 billion to pay for this extravaganza, with many more hundreds of billions to follow. And what was the point of this waste of life and treasure? 'To disarm Iraq,' Bush told us.

"But Iraq, as everyone from the CIA to Hans Blix to Saddam told us beforehand, didn't have any arms to dis.

"Calling off the WMD hunt [the Times reported last week that the Bush administration "has quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment"] is Bush's tacit admission that he lied about the reasons for war. It's hard to think of anything worse that a president can do. It's even harder to imagine the American people, so cynically accepting of deception, holding him accountable."

Good points, even if they are a little bit frantic. =)