Lying Liars...

And now, the latest mendacity from the Bush administration: Secretary of State Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq today.

Here is a portion of her pep talk to the soldiers:

Rice, making her first visit to Iraq as secretary of state, spoke to hundreds of U.S. troops and diplomats in Baghdad.

"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around." [emphasis added.]

What?

Given the recent release of a memo/minutes of meeting between Great Britain and the US Administration in July of 2002 and Richard Clark's testimony ( see my post "Crickets" for the cites), and given that no WMDs have been found, which was the reason given to both the US Congress and the UN, this statement would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that more than 1,600 American soldiers and thousands of Iraqis are dead as a result of the American action.

Does Ms. Rice (or her speech-writers) think we are that stupid?

Clean cups! Clean cups!