This month's issue of Mother Jones contains a wonderful multi-page feature which is nothing but a timeline of events and statements -- some true, others false -- leading up to the Iraq War, beginning in 1992 with President George H.W. Bush's decision not to invade Baghdad, and ending in March, 2003 with the beginning of the Iraq War. (The online version of the timeline is even cooler: it's an interactive Flash application.)

Throughout the timeline, we are treated to statements that have been undoubtedly long-forgotten by administration officials (Rumsfeld on Fox News in February, 2001: "Iraq is probably not a nuclear threat at the present time." Bush in the 2000 election debates would be "very careful about using our troops as nation-builders").