Sy Hersh

I think the lede for this article should just be your basic assumption, shouldn't it?

As Alterman says:

Sy Hersh demonstrates, once again, that only fools and knaves take the Bush administration’s word seriously about anything at all, but never more so than when it comes to its rhetoric about democracy in Iraq. (They do not take democracy seriously in this country, why would you expect them to do so in Iraq?)