Jonathan Chait warns his compadres that leftists and many liberals are letting hatred of Bush blind them to the reality of (among other things) Saddam’s WMD program.

…Bush’s claims should never be taken at face value. But accepting the fact that Iraq had an extensive and continuing program for weapons of mass destruction doesn’t require taking Bush at his word. The U.N. Special Commission, when it finished its work in 1999, concluded the same thing. So has Germany’s intelligence service. So has the United Kingdom’s. Indeed, the only people who seem to doubt it are either allies of Hussein or those who distrust Bush so much that they automatically assume everything he says must be false.

What he doesn’t say, but implies, is that they’re setting themselves up to look once again like utter fools when the evidence all comes out, probably later this summer or fall. Either that, or reduce themselves to coming up with pathetic theories of how the evil neocon Zionist cabal planted them there.

They continue to misunderestimate the President, and they’re going to pay for it again, perhaps heavily, in a year and a half.