If a politician or government official were to tell me the time, I would check my watch for confirmation. And the basis for my wariness gets reconfirmed each day, as members of the political establishment announce new falsehoods. A friend of mine once told me that as a radio newscaster he was tempted to start his newscast with the comment: "Here are the lies your government would like you to believe today!" President Bush and his administration have told so many lies about the purposes and status of the war in Iraq that only the most credulous of his supporters … Continue reading LVI – Lying in State