Roll over, George Orwell: Here's how we got our war on

This morning on Late Edition I barely caught Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell during his stint as Secretary of State, as he referred to an article in Rolling Stone that spoke to how the Iraqi invasion was sold to the American people.

There are moments when you begin to think someone whose credibility you previously respected is beginning to become unhinged. When I tracked down the story itself, authored by James Bamford, about John Rendon and his Rendon Group and how this Rendon was hired to package and sell the takedown of Saddam Hussein, I began to feel I'd left reality and slipped Purple-Rose-of-Cairo into a movie.

Assuming, though, for the moment that Larry Wilkerson is not crazed and that James Bamford is a serious journalist. He is: a Navy veteran, lawyer, author of two bestsellers on the National Security Agency, contributor to many major publications, former Washington investigative producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

He's got cred, and his latest story is here.

If it creeps you out, pass it on. This stuff has got to stop.