The asterisks in Bush's Iraq arguments

Charlie and Jessica McSykes have spent most of their waking hours the last two weeks writing and talking about an ill-advised asterisk in a Journal Sentinel editorial.

Here are some asterisks you are unlikely to see or hear them discussing:

Analysis
Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument

By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers

President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.

Neither assertion is wholly accurate.

In simple language, Bush wasn't telling the truth.

The rest of the story.