BUSH LITE, LYING HIS WAY TO WAR:

President Barack Obama has frequently referred to Khorasan as an "imminent threat," a description which seems to have come out of nowhere. He also has yet to explain why he chose to strike this group the same day he ordered warplanes to drop bombs on separate targets in Syria. [...]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said last week that the Khorasan Group could present a threat, but the term has never shown up in any of the "Worldwide Threat Assessment" reports his office annually provides to Congress.

Yet President Barack Obama and his staff have relied heavily on the explanation that Khorasan was a danger that needed to be addressed immediately. [...]

A day later, Sen. Carl Levin, outgoing chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, offered a few more details.

"The briefings we had indicated that there was a growing ability to...put together explosive devices that could get through the security of airports," the Michigan Democrat told a small group of reporters on Wednesday.

Like WMD, if some folks feel better about fighting a war they should fight for moral reasons only if you offer them physical reasons, then such lies are a small price to pay.

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