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 Did the lead editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post that defended the President’s authorizing the declassification of a secret NIE report on Iraq WMD misstate the facts surrounding the Administration’s handling of pre-war intelligence?The entire left wing of the blogosphere believes so. Jay Rosen believes so. Even Tom McGuire, still doggedly carrying his lantern in daylight looking for one honest man in the Fitzgerald prosecution, believes so.Certainly the figure at the center of the firestorms believes so. Three years ago, Joe Wilson was a nobody, an ex-Ambassador just trying to start a new business venture using his extensive contacts in Africa...

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<p>The images of the pathetic, scraggly Saddam getting checked for lice underscore once again the terrible banality of evil, to borrow a phrase coined for the Nazis.</p> <p>We magnify our enemies, scaling them up to match the evil they unleash.</p>