The New York Times | Krugman: That Magic Moment

"According to a Pew poll, on the eve of the election the great majority of voters, of both parties, believed that the Bush administration had asserted that it found either W.M.D. or an active W.M.D. program in Iraq."

That's mazeway reconstruction for you. Take a Bubba electorate, put them in front of proof that they've royally screwed up, and they'll reconstruct a fantasy tale to justify their actions. Institutionalized stupidity in America. Bubba Logic.