Folks, we got em.  By the balls.  We have, here and now, uncovered one of the great lies of the Bush administration.

Which lie am I speaking of?  The one I discussed in my last diary here.

As I stated there, the circumstantial evidence uncovered by Ron Suskind  in his book The One Percent Doctrine strongly suggests that George Tenet never said the case for Iraqi WMD was a "slam dunk," and that the Bush administration constructed that canard out of whole cloth, and fed it to their tool Bob Woodward ("let's give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything!") to publish to the world.  It was an extremely useful lie, since it supported the White House's bigger thematic lie - that the Iraqi WMD debacle was the fault of poor intelligence gathering by the CIA, as opposed to the White House's unrelenting pressure and a single minded willingness to slant the evidence.

Flashback...

For those nations and individuals who were somehow able to suppress their gag reflex when Bush announced his horrific "Pre-emptive Doctrine", there was only one logical alternative -- monkey see, monkey do.

As expected, Bush's demonic doctrine inspired others to follow:

RUSSIA: Russia assured the world that it's prepared to make 'pre-emptive' strikes on "terrorist bases" across the globe. Russia's Chief of Staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky said:

"With regard to preventive strikes on terrorist bases, we will take any action to eliminate terrorist bases in any region of the world."

NORTH KOREA: In February of 2003, North Korean officials argued that they have the right to a pre-emptive attack on the U.S. as the Bush Administration was preparing for the invasion of Iraq.

"The United States says that after Iraq, we are next", said the deputy director Ri Pyong-gap, "but we have our own countermeasures. Pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the US."

INDIA: Back in April of 2003, India, a nuclear power, called on the US to preemptively invade and conquer Pakistan, a neighboring nuclear power. They cited the opinion that given the Administration's own lax criteria for invasion, Pakistan is a far more dangerous and legitimate target than Iraq.

According to the External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha:

"I genuinely believe that if possession of weapons of mass destruction, absence of democracy and export of terrorism are the criteria, then no country deserves more than Pakistan to be tackled."

JAPAN: In May of 2003, Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi claimed that:

"Japan has the right to make a preemptive strike on any country preparing to attack it."

Koizumi, using fashionable "Bush-speak", cited justification for pre-emptive action because "We could not just let the Japanese people be harmed by doing nothing."