Look! The media is finally asking the question that they should have been asking all along! Are Americans getting truth on Iraq?

"They blew up one of the holiest shrines in Shia Islam - the Golden Mosque of Samarra - in a calculated effort to provoke Iraq's Shia population to retaliate," Bush said. "Their strategy worked. Radical Shia elements, some supported by Iran, formed death squads. And the result was a vicious cycle of sectarian violence that continues today."

But the president's account understates by at least 15 months when Shiite death squads began targeting Sunni politicians and clerics. It also ignores the role that Iranian-backed Shiite groups had in death squad activities prior to the Samarra bombing.

Blaming the start of sectarian violence in Iraq on the Golden Dome bombing risks policy errors because it underestimates the depth of sectarian hatred in Iraq and overlooks the conflict's root causes. The Bush account also fails to acknowledge that Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite groups stoked the conflict.

Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley used the same version of events in an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

I don't usually target the MSM for being lazy or inaccurate like some other bloggers make a habit of doing, but come on! Being this late to identify that the Bush administration has been shaping the intelligence to justify their actions is as old as the first argument they made to go to war in the first place.

This is what this administration does! If anything defines them, it is this constant need to lie to the American people. They do not trust us with the truth. Which has to make you wonder why they fear the truth.

Actually I am pretty sure that we all know why.