In today's Washington Post, Sen. Ted Kennedy summarizes how Bush misled us into war with Iraq. You should read the whole thing, but this paragraph sums it up nicely:

Hussein's brutal regime was not an adequate justification for war, and the administration did not seriously try to make it one until long after the war began and all the false justifications began to fall apart. There was no imminent threat. Hussein had no nuclear weapons, no arsenals of chemical or biological weapons, no connection to Sept. 11 and no plausible link to al Qaeda. We never should have gone to war for ideological reasons driven by politics and based on manipulated intelligence.

Democrats need to say exactly this every time the issue of Iraq comes up.

Lockdown

Is there anyone who believes Wal-Mart when it claims that it locks workers in stores at night only to protect them from crime? No? Then how many people believe that Wal-Mart locks those workers in to prevent them from taking smoke breaks or walking out with a couple of DVDs? Thought so.

Now, I guess it's not really news that Wal-Mart, like a lot of employers, doesn't trust the people it hires to do the more menial jobs. The pay is low, the work is hard, and the hours suck — not exactly a recipe for winning the hearts and minds of your cleaning staff. But instead of putting a manager on the graveyard shift to keep an eye on things, Wal-Mart just locks the workers in and then threatens to fire anyone who uses the emergency exits. Which is why Michael Rodriguez waited an hour with a crushed ankle for someone to come and unlock the doors. But paying a night manager would cost Wal-Mart money, so it's just easier for the company to abuse its "associates". Nice.