WaPo's Deborah Howell and Fred Hiatt: Fact Free and Loving It

I go back and forth on the Deborah Howell conundrum -- ignorant or craven? I always find myself touching down upon this Upton Sinclair quote:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

And so we find ourselves with Lil' Debbie, failing to disappoint with this week's excuses about last week's Fred Hiatt editorial:

The Post editorially has supported the war, and the purpose of the editorial -- headlined "A Good Leak" -- was to support that leak as necessary to show that the president had reason to believe that Iraq was seeking uranium.

Yes, we know you have a lot invested in your warmongering. It has no doubt paid the giant cocktail weenie bill for years. But the fact is that there was no reason for the president to believe Iraq was seeking uranium at the time.