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Dean: Investigate Bush Statements on Iraq Now that's what I'm talking about.

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Tuesday called for an independent investigation of President Bush and his justification for the U.S.-led war against Iraq, arguing that the commander in chief misled the country...

"We need a thorough look at what really happened going into Iraq," Dean said. "It appears to me that what the president did was make a decision to go into Iraq sometime in early 2002, or maybe even late 2001, and then try to get the justification afterward."

Keep pushing, goddammit. Lies of this magnitude cannot be swept under the carpet.

And before you think I'm a kneejerk Bush-hater, let me remind you of the following:

1. Bush and the Bush administration said, multiple times, in different ways, that Iraq had an active WMD program that posed an imminent threat to the U.S.

2. Any president who twists facts to fit what he wants to believe, consciously or unconsciously, to the point of conducting an undeclared war on another nation, is not someone I can trust to execute the duties of his office.

Now, turning a blind eye on, say, a relative's drinking habits, would be one thing, unless, of course, your job is to fix people's drinking habits.

So, if your job is to represent Americans on the stage of international politics, among other things, it is part of your job to pay close attention to what your intel actually says, not what you wish it did.