I’ll be darned: they did it! Every news editor’s dropping in some boilerplate about “the long-awaited Phase II of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report…” but does that even begin to cover it? Long awaited is a post-steakhouse bowel movement. Long awaited is the new Rush album. This is several fucking years too late, guys. But, hey, given that I salute the timing; might as well drop this baby in an election year. I only wonder if it’ll get a hundredth the coverage the gleamingly whitewashed Phase I did. Just kidding, I don’t wonder at all. Compare and contrast these headlines, and see if you can guess which is the paper of record, and which is a certain mid-market & below wire service that got everything right in the run-up to war and was nigh-universally ignored:

Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq statements were untrue

Ooooor on the other hand:

Senate Panel Finds Iraq Intelligence Exaggerations

Yeah, I knew you could guess. The Times article is a travesty through-and-through, of course:

But the report found that on several key issues, including Iraq’s alleged nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, public statements from Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and other top officials before the war were generally “substantiated” by the best estimates of the intelligence agencies, though the statements did not always reflect the agencies’ uncertainty about the evidence.

O RLY? Take it, ‘Clatch:

Among the reports (sic) conclusions:
[...]The president and vice president misrepresented what was known about Iraq’s chemical weapons capabiliies.

Fresh. Based on the available evidence, I look forward to a full week of coverage on whether Michelle Obama was being racist when she ate cheese and crackers at a campaign event this week.  Every bit of confirmation that crrrrrrazy war opponents were right in every detail makes my bitterness and anger that much more self-righteous, though; what else could I ask for?