They Did Lie

Kevin Drum gives the Bushies too much credit over the Botulism Bacteria of mass destruction, calling it a "technical lie." David Kay explicitly refers to it as a "weapons cache." Don't let them off the hook so easily.

SNOW: You believe that there are similar strains perhaps throughout Iraq right now?

KAY: We're actively searching for at least one more cache of weapons — of strains that we know exists.

SNOW: This is a cache that had been referred to by a scientist. The first bit of information paid off; you're still looking for the second one?

KAY: Exactly.

SNOW: And the second one is a large cache.

And, don't forget Bush's own spin:

Kay had reported to Congress on Thursday that his team has found no weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq. But Bush said Friday the Iraq war was justified and cited the vial of bacteria as proof Kay found ample signs Saddam "was a danger to the world."

In the magical fairy universe inhabited by Bush, Instahack, and their minions, this is proof that Saddam was a danger to the world. But, in the normal universe where reason and intelligence still have some value, this is of course not proof of any such thing.