Nothing new?

Editor,
I find your claim remarkable that there is "nothing new" in the so-called Downing Street memo.

Why on earth did you not report at the time that George Bush was lying to Congress, lying to the U.N., and lying to the American people, if you knew all along that his pretense for launching a war against Iraq was a bald-faced lie? Why did you agonize in editorial after editorial between July, 2002, and March, 2003, that every avenue short of war must be "exhausted" before undertaking this "last and terrible" option? Are you admitting that you, too, are culpable in foisting this illegal, immoral, and militarily indefensible war on the millions upon millions of people across the globe who DID know all along that the claims to justify this war are, were, and always will be coldly calculated lies?