NICK DOUGLAS — A simple Internet search could have prevented the war in Iraq, says Washington Post editor Peter Eisner in his new book, The Italian Letter. Searching for terms from a "smoking gun" letter (later used in Bush's 2003 State of the Union address as evidence that Saddam was building WMDs) would have shown it was a forgery. Granted, given the war machine already in motion, the CIA was one Google away from preventing the war in the same way that my scrawny ass is one Google away from a rigorous exercise program.

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