A SHOCK

Holy Crap! The Washington Post actually printed this story about fake nuclear evidence:

A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions.

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Knowledgeable sources familiar with the forgery investigation described the faked evidence as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in the central African nation of Niger. The documents had been given to the U.N. inspectors by Britain and reviewed extensively by U.S. intelligence. The forgers had made relatively crude errors that eventually gave them away -- including names and titles that did not match up with the individuals who held office at the time the letters were purportedly written, the officials said.

"We fell for it," said one U.S. official who reviewed the documents.

To laugh or to cry? to turn on the television and hope for something better? to drink to gutter-bound excess? to self-medicate until the black spots in my periphery become blinders?

UDPATE: Man, a domino effect here. Newsweek is jumping on the bandwagon, too. 'Tis what happens, Mr. President, when you're stock is going down quicker than one of your daughters at a frat party. [Apologies to Tbogg for lifting one of his recurring jokes.]