The Bushies and Chalabi spread the falsehoods that have killed nearly 3,000 American troops. Now a bit of truth could emerge:

...[Yesterday] The Senate Intelligence Committee approved two of the reports in its oft-delayed, much-maligned investigation into whether the Bush administration misused intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq, committee chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas said.

One report focuses on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's connections to terrorism and his alleged weapons of mass destruction program, and how they compare with pre-war intelligence assessments. The other assesses the intelligence agencies' use of information, much of which was later discredited, from the Iraqi National Congress, an influential exile group opposed to Saddam....

Now, if only we get to read them -- especially the report on Chalabi:

The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee lashed out at the White House on Thursday, criticizing attempts by the Bush administration to keep secret parts of a report on the role Iraqi exiles played in building the case for war against Iraq.

The chairman, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, ... chastised the White House for efforts to classify most of the part that examines intelligence provided to the Bush administration by the Iraqi National Congress, an exile group.

"I have been disappointed by this administration's unwillingness to declassify material contained in these reports, material which I believe better informs the public, but that does not -- I repeat, does not -- jeopardize intelligence operations, sources and methods," Mr. Roberts said in a statement issued Thursday....

Ah, but it does jeopardize the administration's ongoing campaign to persuade Americans that the case for war was kinda-sorta the truth -- a campaign that's been rather successful lately. It jeropardizes the Bushies' argument that in the rush to war they were not (a) liars or (b) chumps.

Once again, I urge you -- read this and this and this. Chalabi wanted our troops to die in his country, so he just lied and lied. There isn't a circle in hell low enough for him. Or for the people who knew he was lying, or should have known, and enabled him nonetheless.

(First link via War and Piece.)