This lays out exactly how Bush lied our way into war.

The downing Street Memo is finally starting to have the impact that we on the left knew that it would. This just the first few loose rocks to roll down the hill, the avalanche is still to come.

Man check some of these quotes from the above article.

It calls to mind an interesting observation that an unnamed "senior advisor" to President Bush made to a New York Times Magazine reporter last fall:

The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do

Here is a quote from Joseph Goebbels. The parallell is absolutely eerie!

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

It kind of makes you wonder where this administration cribbed it's ideas for world domination. I remember once in a Philosophy class being asked what we would have done if we had beeGermanan citizens when Hitler came to power. Well, what should we do?