If you go dumpster-diving in the Lefty sites like Kos, you’ll read over and over the allegations that Bush took us to war in Iraq using lies and coerced intelligence data. This am Hugh Hewitt links to an Opinion Journal article by Peter Wehner — deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. In this piece, Revisionist History, Antiwar myths about Iraq, debunked, Wehner takes the four most often heard myths, the core of a new Leftist canon, and tears ‘em up good.

Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters. Like swallows to Capistrano, they keep returning to the same allegations–

• The president misled Americans to convince them to go to war.

• The Bush administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments.

• Because weapons of mass destruction stockpiles weren’t found, Saddam posed no threat.

• Promoting democracy in the Middle East is a postwar rationalization.

–and yet people continue to believe, and spread, them. Let me examine each in turn:

I’m not gonna do the work for you and capsulize each of the four — ’cause it’s well worth your time to go and read all of this one . . . only through self-education and consistent rebuking of these four lies of the Left can we ensure that their warped visage of our efforts in Iraq does not become future “historical truth”. (db)

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