When all the pre-war lies were finally exposed, the Busheviks settled on one final lie to justify all their discredited lies. As Bush told Politico on May 14,

intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment.

As I wrote then,

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.

Now John McCain is picking up where Bush left off:

I know why I supported it [the war] because I believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as did every intelligence agency in the world and every assessment.

As Satyam writes,

The Bush administration did set up its own intelligence shops to disseminate faulty intelligence about Iraq’s alleged WMD. But “every” agency in the “world” did not buy the spin — several U.S. agencies were highly skeptical:

State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR): Concluded that the “activities we have detected do not add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing what [the INR] would consider to be an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons.”

Department of Energy: Concluded aluminum tubes said to be used for nuclear centrifuges were “likely intended for small artillery rockets.”

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): On March 7, 2003, IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei reported there was “no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any nuclear weapons or was in the process of acquiring them.”

Hans Blix, chief U.N. weapon’s inspector: In June 2003, Blix told the U.N. Security Council that his inspection teams had not found any “smoking guns” after visiting some 125 Iraqi sites.

We must find a way to kill this Zombie Lie.

Update 1: Dana Perino embraces the Zombie Lie:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House Monday rejected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's charges of "abuse" of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying "the entire world" agreed on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

"We acted on the intelligence that we had, and that the entire world had," spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters after Rudd alleged "abuse of intelligence information" on the regime in Baghdad.

"No-one else in the world, no other government, had different information and so we acted based on what was the threat that was presented to us. When the intelligence community presents you with their concerns, you'd better take them seriously," said Perino.