While all progressives suspected Bush was lying about Iraq's WMD's before the war, the first major proof of his lies came on 7/6/03, nearly four months after the invasion, when Joseph Wilson published his now-famous op-ed, What I Didn't Find in Africa. (Wilson was punished for this by having his wife outed, which endangered her life and may have cost the lives of spies in her network.)

The second major proof of Bush's lies came two years later with the publication of the now-famous Downing Street Memo in the Times of London on 5/1/05. (The U.S. Corporate Media still refuses to acknowledge the existence of this devastating memo.)

Since then, we've accumulated endless evidence of Bush's pre-war lies.

But there is one Bush lie that refuses to die - a veritable "zombie lie." And that's Bush's lie that "all the world's intelligence agencies believed Iraq had WMD." Bush repeated the lie twice in his interview with Politico:

Q Mr. President, I'm going to surprise you -- there's a question from a user, Bruce Becker, and he asks: Do you feel that you were misled on Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: I feel like -- I felt like there were weapons of mass destruction. You know, "mislead" is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional -- I don't think so, I think there was a -- not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.

Q And so you feel that you didn't have all the information you should have or the right spin on that information?

THE PRESIDENT: No, no, I was told by people that they had weapons of mass destruction -- as were members of Congress, who voted for the resolution to get rid of Saddam Hussein. And of course, the political heat gets on and they start to run and try to hide from their votes. But intelligence communities all across the world felt the same thing. This was kind of a common assessment.

So "mislead" means, do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don't. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion.

Bullshit.

The intelligence agencies of Germany, France, Russia, and China didn't believe it. That's why their governments opposed a second U.N. resolution to authorize a U.S. invasion, and why Bush had to create a  "coalition of the billing willing" outside the U.N.

We don't know for certain whether Britain's MI6 believed it or not. We know Blair's political hacks "sexed up" the intelligence, while the professional analysts did not agree. The same process was at work here in the U.S.

We have no idea whether the intelligence agencies in the region - Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, or even Israel - believed it.

Everything about Iraq has been a lie - before, during, and after. It's high time for Bush's last Zombie Lie to have a stake driven through its heart.