Kirchick says "administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods" ... as if we/they don't know what a lie is.
Oh, dude, we like totally know what a lie is.
Heres the whole thing Kirchick doesn't grasp, and which allowed him to write this crazy article.
The administration was presented with facts about the impending task ahead. And it wasn't rosy. But in attempting to make the case for war, they did make it sound rosier than the intelligence suggested. They picked and chose what they shared with the public. That's being dishonest, deliberately.
We were misled.