So we live in an era of lies about everything from Benghazi and Obamacare to the alphabet soup of scandal and incompetence at the IRS, ICE, VA, USSS (Secret Service), NSA, GSA, and even the CDC. But before we can correct the present lies, we should first address the greatest untruth in this collection: “Bush lied, thousands died” was an abject lie.
No, it wasn't an abject lie. The lie was Colin Powell's presentation to the UN, which has nothing to do with mustard gas or chemical warfare used against Iraqis or Kurds. The lie was aluminum rods, ordinary extrusion rods, presented by Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, as tubes used in military grade nuclear bomb-making, as a WMD national security threat against the United States, when they weren't.

That was the lie that motivated Congress to declare and authorize the invasion of Iraq.

Our government is corrupt and has been so for awhile. There's no excusing Bush II for what he did in some establishment effort to clean his record to clear the way for Bush III.

Sorry Victor David Hanson, but this one was way too obvious for me not to comment. You write some great articles, but this was not one of them. And the situation now in Iraq? There is still no end-game. It's still not over. The best thing Republicans can do this election is stop talking about it, stop trying to defend it, let Russia handle Syria, stop worrying about all these hell-holes in the Middle East, and focus our attention and energy on fixing the United States.