Weapons of Mass Delusion

"We're not supposed to compare Iraq to Vietnam," Katha Pollitt writes in this week's The Nation, "but how's this for a similarity? If Saddam's dangerousness was a pretext, a way to win popular support by spreading fear, those insistent charges of WMD possession start looking rather like the manufactured Gulf of Tonkin incident. Is it OK for the government to lie as long as things go well?"