"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States."

--George W. Bush, October 7, 2002.

I'm not talking about the fact that the dread Iraqi fleet turned out to be a few ancient Czech training drones. Put that aside. Focus on what he said.

Was he, or anyone else in the administration, really" concerned" that Iraq might unleash a fleet of chem-armed UAVs on the US mainland (after, I guess, ferrying them most of the way across the Atlantic so they were in range)? How low an opinion of President Bush's intelligence do you have to have to believe that he believed that statement? How low an opinion does President Bush have of the public's intelligence to make that statement? Oh well, no one ever went broke, like Mencken said.

The point is, that was a lie. Right?