While the pundits keep describing the speech of the Bush administration as "exaggerated" or "misleading" or "mistaken" rather than as lies, I don't think the public will be sufficiently incensed to vote Bush II out of office. We need to realize that a democracy is based on an educated public (which assumes the public has learned the truth--I know of no one who calls people who are ignorant because they have been told lies "educated!") and the Bush administration is running a direct assault on democracy in this country and around the world.

However, I think we all know enough of what is true to see the lies they tell--especially when they are presented in a concentrated fashion. That's exactly what Sam Smith has done in his essay "Revision Thing" in Harper's Magazine. Put these together and the pattern doesn't indicate "mistakes" but "intentionally false statements." Take a look at Smith's article:
http://www.harpers.org/RevisionThing.html