Paul Krugman: After Saddam, America's Next Fake Enemy: Deficits

Were Americans misled into the Iraq war? Yes.

But Karl Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, argued in the Wall Street Journal in July that his "biggest mistake" was not fighting back in 2004 when the story began to spread that the Bush administration had lied to Americans during the run-up to the Iraq war.