Yes, yes, Bush lied...But will the Run Away Bride still tie the knot?

It should not surprise anyone that some new/old dirt emerged in Britain's election. Confirmation seeped out. Bush made up his mind to invade Iraq before he had a reason to invade, then manipulated intelligence to fit his decision. Yawn.

Memo: Bush manipulated Iraq intel

WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.

The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war.

Don't the Brits get it? We in the US don't care if our leaders lie to us. We think their outrage is cute. When are those backwards islanders going to get it? Schiavo. The Runaway Bride. Michael Jackson. An out of control judiciary. Dammit, that's news. We wanna see more preachers on the news debating whether or not intelligent design belongs in a science class. We want to see more preachers on tv arguing about the secular assault on America. We want more tension and more shouting. Oh, and more flash. We want our celebrity pet bits introduced with as much drama as possible. The President figuring out how best to lie to the nation?

That just makes us change the channel.