A confederacy of liars

On this day after the identity of "Deep Throat" was revealed, it's instructive to take a look at the Bush Administration lies about Iraq, conveniently gathered together in one place, in a devastating piece of Flash animation.

30 years ago, articles of impeachment were drawn up against Richard Nixon because of his cover-up of a burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters in a campaign that Nixon was likely to win anyway. Four years ago, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about a consensual sexual liaison with a legal adult. Today, George W. Bush, and the men around him, have been shown in the minutes of a British Prime Minister's meeting (which the British have not disavowed) to have ordered intelligence about Iraq "tailored to fit the policy" -- said policy being war.

With over 1700 young Americans dead, at least tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead and America's reputation in tatters around the world, when are we going to demand the same kind of accountability from this Administration that was demanded of these predecessors? Is there a point where the lies and the crimes become so heinous, and their impact becomes so severe, that it's just too painful for most Americans to face them? And if that's what's happening here, don't we have a responsibility to DEMAND accountability?