Molly Ivins: Lie after lie after lie

What a gully-washer. What a frog-strangler. You ain't seen rain until you've seen record rain in Seattle. My wetness awareness has shot up thanks to this town. But next day, the sun came out -- and you could hardly tell the deluge had occurred.

And so it is in our public life -- the finger of fate writes, and having writ, moves on, leaving today's horrendous scandal back there with the snows of yesteryear, while we all focus on The Latest.

But there is one deception that will not go away. What happened to the weapons of mass destruction? "The intolerable reality is that they blatantly twisted intelligence information to fit preconceived policies," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. "They lied to promote public relations, from the Jessica Lynch ordeal to the president's campaign landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln --- and about what war would cost our country."

"Before the war, week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

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I didn't realize she was in Seattle. I love Molly's writing. She is so right on!

The guts of this column came from Sy Hersch's "The Stovepipe" in the most recent addition of The New Yorker, however, Ivins does an excellent job of tying in some other relevant ideas. She's smart and honest. Funny too. That's why I read her stuff all the time.

Always a pleasure to read here stuff. She's always spot on.