Libby trial reveals fabricate- and-smear cycle

San Francisco Chronicle February 27, 2007
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group

The administration’s willingness at the outset to say anything, no matter how questionable, to justify the war has destroyed its credibility. Its habit of attacking those who expressed misgivings has destroyed any goodwill it might have enjoyed. Bush and Cheney have lost the benefit of the doubt.

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