I was a member of the first Congressional delegation to visit Iraq after we resumed bombing under Clinton, with other staff members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, in 1999. The administration tried to prevent our trip, but we persisted.

After that trip and much more research, I am fully convinced that the administration knew there were no WMDs there.

Brett Blackledge, a reporter who in his previous joy was deeply involved in the media and Republican harassment of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, which was driven by Karl Rove, is discredited here in the state of Alabama.

Blackledge is only one example of the serious right-ward shift of the Post since I worked in Congress.

When a journalist becomes a toady for the government, he discredits the media for which he works, in this case the AP.