From the New York Times:

Representative Jim McDermott of Washington State as much as called Bush a liar. Okay, hey, it's a free country and the man's entitled to an opinion, but to say this in Baghdad?

...When pressed for evidence about whether President Bush had lied, Mr. McDermott said, "I think the president would mislead the American people." But he said he believed that inspections of Iraq's weapons programs could be worked out.



"I think they will come up with a regime that will not require coercive inspections," Mr. McDermott said, anticipating meetings on Monday between Hans Blix, the leader of the United Nations inspection group, and Iraqi officials.

"They said they would allow us to go look anywhere we wanted," he said of the Iraqis. "And until they don't do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff where you bring in helicopters and armed people and storm buildings."



The fact that McDermott believes Bush would lie to gain his ends, but that Saddam Hussein is credible when he offers to cooperate with inspections, shows how deep the leftist psychosis has settled in.

Mr. Bonior, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, said: "We've got to move forward in a way that's fair and impartial. That means not having the United States or the Iraqis dictate the rules to these inspections."

Uh...then who dictates the rules? The United Nations? Yeah, right. That's worked great so far.

Jane Fonda would be proud.