On Sunday, Condoleezza Rice admitted that President Bush had used a forged document in his State of the Union speech to prove Iraq represented a nuclear threat: "We did not know at the time — maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency — but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course it was information that was mistaken."

The Left is getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of that one forged document. In just the past few weeks we've flagged about a half dozen forgerys, fabrications, mistakes, and screwups just on the part of the anti-Bush media. And those are just the ones we've caught so far.

As Monday's New York Times reported, Al Qaeda honchos in separate interrogations told a consistent story a year ago: The terrorist group, and Osama bin Laden in particular, had shunned any connection with Hussein and his government.

Oh, now THERE'S some reliable sources. Not like all those rotten lying defectors who tell the exact opposite story.

The report stated that "there is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or whether Iraq has — or will — establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities," according to U.S. officials interviewed by The Times. Yet that very month, Rumsfeld told Congress that Hussein's "regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons — including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas."

Lying by omission has apparently become an Olympic sport in the media. According to Powell, the very next sentence in that report describes the distribution of WMD weapons to units. I look forward to the release of the full report. Naturally, the many reports by the DIA around the same time concluding that Iraq had concealed WMD and was a threat, are ignored by people like Scheer.

On Sunday, the London Observer, citing British intelligence sources, reported that it "is increasingly likely that the units were designed to be used for hydrogen production to fill artillery balloons, part of a system originally sold to Saddam by Britain in 1987."

The artillery meteorological system sold to Iraq was made by Marconi, and the specifications should be easy to locate for a reporter with more time than I have and an expense account. Why has no one done this and settled the issue? I do know that U.S. artillery meteorological system look nothing like the trailers they found.