Comment: "We need to think about" Bush using Adelman, Woolsey, Perle and Gaffney to do Bush's dirty work, so as to not leave presidential fingerprints on the hoariest lie of all - that Iraq was an accomplice in 9-11.

15) Withholding the key fact that would show your principled pose is a pose devoid of principle:

"Saddam Hussein [attacked Iran in 1980] and Kuwait in 1990."
(U.N. speech, Sept. 12, 2002)

Comment: The Swedish government is entitled to condemn Iraq for invading Iran. The current U.S. government - featuring key players from the very Reagan administration that supported Iraqi aggression throughout the 1980s - is not. If you surround yourself with officials who supported the aggression in real time, you are not entitled to be angered by it 20 years later.