[dirtboy]

Got that one in Post 21. One would figure that Krugman would bat leadoff for a lie campaign. Although Arianna was also repeating that lie later in the month, in her usual shrill, nails-down-the-blackboard style.

[Miss Marple]

Going back to Graham (who is on the Intelligence Committee), I think he is the one who started this hyperbole, perhaps at the request of someone else (such as Senator Clinton).

Graham started making noise right around last October, saying that we were ignoring Al Quaeda while we went after Iraq. At the time I thought that he had received intelligence information that we were probably going to be hit here in the US, and was trying to frame it like we were ignoring it, in order to hit Bush. I am almost posititve that Graham was the first to start in on the Iraq thing, because I got so incensed about it at the time.