The word is that George W. Bush will take the occasion of Veterans Day to once again wrap himself in the US flag and play to patriots' short memories and blind nationalism. He will be "reminding" Americans that the very same Democrats who are criticizing his abysmal war effort at one time voted to invade Iraq and that just makes them big fat hypocrites.

What the president will NOT be reminding Americans is that he had all pre-war Iraq intelligence cherry-picked and carefully rewritten to suggest that Iraq had massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, so that the only information Democrats had was what the president wanted them to have. He will also not be reminding Americans that he forced the only weapons inspectors on the ground in Iraq—who, incidentally found absolutely no evidence of any weapons of mass destruction stockpiles or manufacturing facilities—to leave the country or else he couldn't guarantee their safety as he proceeded to invade and carpet bomb the country anyway. He will also not be reminding Americans that then-secretary of state Colin Powell flat-out lied to the United Nations as he pointed out smudges on fuzzy satellite photos and declared them to be incontrovertible proof of weapons of mass destruction.

It is no surprise that Democrats might have voted to support a war based on skewed and false information the administration provided to them. But give me a break. Going back and saying that Democrats are as much to blame as the administration that fooled them with misleading information is unsupportable.

The president lied to the United Nations, the US Congress, and the American people. All of them may have supported him at the time believing that he was telling the truth. But once his lies were revealed, it is all on him.