YOU DON'T HAVE TO go out of your way to find suggestions that the administration (and Prime Minister Tony Blair) trumped up the charges of WMD to justify a war with Iraq.

Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online deftly lays out the illogic of such a suggestion.

But it is far from demonstrated that Bush, in fact, lied to the American people.

To believe that Bush lied, you have to not only believe that the intelligence communities of the United States and Great Britain were wrong, but the intelligence communities of Germany, France, Israel and Russia were wrong too. That's doable.

But, on top of that, you must also believe that Bush knew these intelligence communities were wrong and lied about it. And, you must also believe that Saddam Hussein secretly destroyed his WMD but refused to admit it despite the credible threat of war and the continuation of sanctions.