Insult to Injury

By this point we all know not only from thinking about it but also from the downing street memo that the Bush administration artificially constructed and lied about a rationale for the war in Iraq. Well now it gets even better. Thanks to the London Times (because no American media outlet would ever report something important), we now know

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.

The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive.

At least Congressman Conyers is on the case, but there's something very wrong with this country if every media outlet is not blasting coverage of this 24/7.