"I cannot tell a lie" - George Washington IT'S LIKE the story of the thief who yelled "Stop, thief!" The dossier against Saddam Hussein that President George Bush presented to the UN General Assembly on 12 September 2002 was called A Decade of Lies and Deceit. And what did he offer for proof? Lies. He claimed that Iraq had close links with the al-Qaida network and was a threat to the security of the United States because it had "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) - a scary phrase invented by his media advisers. Three months after the victory of...