Following the release of a letter from members of a House committee investigating pre-invasion intelligence, the mainstream media is once again focusing on the intelligence failings leading up to the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. Both Time and Newsweek have stories looking at intelligence failures--Time with an article titled "Chasing a Mirage" on the United States efforts to find WMD and Newsweek reporting on how ideological differences limited post-war planning to the point where Rumsfeld ordered Pentagon staffers headed to Iraq to be cut because Rumsfeld deemed them "Arab Apologists."

As a way of keeping the words of the Bush administration fresh in the ears of the public, Harper's has compiled statements from the Bush administration into a "History of the Iraq War told Entirely in Lies." Hopefully this time the media will keep the pressure on the administration and not give up as they did when this issue first came to prominence back in July. Maybe this time some office-holding Democrats will start calling for administration officials to resign (at the very least).

Time: Chasing a Mirage - The U.S. was sure Saddam had WMD, but Iraqi scientists tell TIME the weapons were destroyed long before the war

AFP: Iraq postwar insecurity began in Washington: report

New York Times: New Criticism on Prewar Use of Intelligence

Harper's: The Revision Thing--A History of the Iraq War, Told Entirely in Lies