How many legs does a dog have?

Lincoln is said to have observed: "If you call the tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? The answer, of course, is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one."

And so we have this:

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war."
--Stephanie Cutter, chief spokesman, John Kerry for President
Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2004

Stephen Hayes explodes this myth by citing chapter and verse from the various Senate intelligence reports that conclude that Iraq was actively engaged in terrorism before the war.