Jonah Goldberg  "By one count, President Bush offered 23
different rationales for this war," John Kerry scoffed last
month. Considering that the Kerry campaign claims their man has
voted 600 times to cut taxes, there's good reason to doubt the
challenger's counting skills. But there's no denying that the
Bush administration has offered several different rationales to
bolster its case for the Iraq war.  Oh, wait, it can be denied.
In fact, it's being denied zealously now that the Iraqi Survey
Group has concluded in its final report that Saddam had no
weapons of mass destruction when we invaded. The president's
critics now insist that Bush made only one case for war.  To his
critics, it seems, Bush's error is that he offered too many
reasons to go to war, except when he offered too few. When the
news is that no WMDs have been found, WMDs become Bush's only
reason to go to war. Back when the WMD angle had yet to be
verified, the problem was that Bush offered too many rationales.
Which is it?  Now, receiving as m