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Check it out: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16770023/. I'll wait.

So yes, my hope is that, over the next few weeks, we will learn that dubya's cronies jeopardized national security to take us to war. In case you've had your head in the sand, here is the backstory. To sum up, 6 months before Dubya claimed in his '03 state of the union address that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium (ostensibly for (I)raq'in up a number of nukes), despite the fact that the administration knew this to be untrue. A quote from the backstory article:
"By summer 2002, the White House Iraq Group began to describe the "grave and gathering danger" of Iraq's allegedly "reconstituted" nuclear weapons program. That claim, along with repeated use of the "mushroom cloud" image by top officials beginning in September, became the emotional heart of the case against Iraq."
This was a claim they knew to be false.
After Wilson came back from Africa, his wife, a CIA operative, was outed by the administration to the news media.

Two things:
We've known for years now that the invasion of Iraq was begun without pretense; but I am willing to bet all the cheese in this house...wait, wait, I'm just getting word that...yes...I'm just getting word that I have been authorized to include all the cheese in my neighbors' houses as well in this bet...willing to bet all that cheese that an incredibly significant number (if not an outright majority) of Americans don't even know this. Way to go us. Why do other countries know more about what is going on in our country than we do?
Second, is it not a matter of national security that our covert operatives remain covert? Especially those that "worked...in the Counterproliferation Division"? I thought that this administration's entire raison d'etre was national security. I confused.

Finally, a nugget from Rodney Anonymous Tells You How To Live:
"Did you know that, following the US invasion of Iraq, control of the Iraqi stock market was turned over to a twenty-four-year-old American whose sole qualification was that his parents had contributed heavily to the Republican Party? This young fellow forgot to renew the lease on the building the market was housed in, forcing the stock exchange to remain closed for a year."
Again, good work us. What's the opposite of a kudo? I need to hand some out.