In the past few weeks there's been a concerted effort to rewrite the history leading up the Iraq war as a big "whoopsies!" Now that the whole process has come to light, with all of it's incompetence and misdeeds, it's hard for me to believe anyone would buy this. The only possible reason I can imagine is that those who supported the war want to soothe their egos rather than own up to their mistakes. They're manufacturing their own excuse so they can say to themselves, "How could I have know any better? No one could have known." But I seriously doubt this will gain any traction outside of the die hard circles. No 13-year-old will grow up to think the brazenly contrived and wildly inaccurate intelligence was just some unlucky accident.