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What the public believes today, and what the public believes the day after tomorrow, are two very different things.

There are a number of Americans who would still maintain the war was wrong if we'd stumbled upon a cache of weapons the size of New Hampshire.

There are a number of Americans who would still maintain the war was right if a videotape meeting of the Cabinet laughing at the effectiveness of their deception about WMD were played on CNN, MSNBC, and even on FOX.

There's a whole lotta mofos out there in the middle - the majority, IMHO. Some of them will decide it ultimately didn't matter. Some of them will decide they've been lied to. Some will change the channel and watch Jerry Springer.

UNLESS these clowns are stupid enough to mislead a Congressional inquiry, there is no impeachable offense here. What there WILL be is a loss of credibility with some people - and not just the people who fail the Torone/MikeAI litmius test for true Americanism, either. I think that an awful lot of Americans who supported military action in Iraq will be far more skeptical when Rumsfeld talks of Iranian nuclear weapons, just as one example.

How many, and what kind of, consequences that has for the administration, remains to be seen.