There are few examples of right wingnuttery more pungent than the argument that WMD were found in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, but due to the gross negligence of the Bush administration they were smuggled out of the country by insurgents and are now in the hands of the U.S.’s mortal enemies and that everybody — White House and Democrats alike — is so embarrassed that they’re joined at the hip in a vast cover-up.

Hokie smokies!

I had not realized how really vast this cover-up was until I did some research on the story behind Melanie Phillips’ “scoop” on it in The Spectator over the weekend and found similar stories littered through right-wing media archives over the last three years like so much road kill.

If I learned anything as an investigative reporter and editor, it is that if a story seems too good to be true then it isn’t.

There also is the fact that diarrhea of the mouth is as common in Washington as padded expense accounts, and the number of people who would have to keep quiet about a WMD cover-up of this magnitude would number in the thousands.

So why then does this story rear its ugly head with such regularity?

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