In his State of the Union address, the president said that Saddam Hussein had recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa. This highly significant statement, it turns out, was based on forged documents from the African nation of Niger, according to White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The International Atomic Energy Agency has known about the falsehood for some time, and reported it to the United Nations four months ago.

Add to this the use of plagiarized documents used by the British government to create a "dossier" on Iraq. The documents, you will recall, came from a Monterey, California graduate student's Ph.D. thesis, and their exposure was a major embarrassment to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Those who continue to call Bush "honorable" need to take a close look at the plethora of lies he has told since the day he began his campaign for the presidency. That may take some time, but the lies about Iraq require immediate examination.