Jay Ambrose - writing in the DC Examiner - opines about the Downing Street Minutes, but he ignores the facts, leaving us to correct the distortions, out-of-context quotes, and misrepresentations. Ambrose wants to make this about John Kerry rather than Bush and those responsible for the disaster in Iraq. He contends it was "silly ... for people to interpret the first memo - which contained meeting minutes - the way they did" by which he meant us, the "Bush-bashing bloggers and, later, some way-out congressional Democrats" who know "the leaked minutes proved Bush lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction and that he had decided on war long before he said he had." Ambrose makes several absurd false statements. It's true we knew Saddam was a "genocidal maniac," many of us knew that back during the 1980s when Reagan, Rumsfeld, and Bush I were helping Saddam and when Cheney was making money with Saddam as recently as 1999! We know this isn't true: "Saddam maintained programs that could produce chemical and biological WMD at the snap of his dictatorial fingers." So why does Ambrose repeat this utterly refuted claim?    more »