The Los Angeles Times reveals that the reason for going to war may have been trumped up by the Iraqis:

Intelligence officials are reexamining data used in justifying the war. They say Hussein's regime may have sent bogus defectors.

The new review has been prompted by criticism of the Administration's failure to find weapons of mass destruction. The goal is to find out if Bush & Co. were duped.

The goal, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, "is to see if false information was put out there and got into legitimate channels and we were totally duped on it." He added, "We're reinterviewing all our sources of information on this. This is the entire intelligence community, not just the U.S."

The far-reaching review was started after a political firestorm erupted this summer over revelations that President Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had sought to import uranium from Niger was based on forged documents.

....officials say former Iraqi operatives have confirmed since the war that Hussein's regime sent "double agents" disguised as defectors to the West to plant fabricated intelligence. In other cases, Baghdad apparently tricked legitimate defectors into funneling phony tips about weapons production and storage sites.

This is major. It's not like the U.S. can morph into Emily Litella and turn to the parents of those soldiers killed in the war and its aftermath and say, "Never mind."