On the July 20 “Hardball,” Chris Matthews apparently forgot about all that “Axis of Evil” talk about Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Matthews asked Bob Graham about Team Bush: “Did they, did someone keep that information about the Iranian role secret so that they could focus all the ire of the American people on Iraq? Was that it? Was this sort of a blocking effort here?”
He then underlined the amnesia: Matthews: “Let me ask Senator Lott, the President of the United States made a real effort in the months before, before the war with Iraq to educate the American people as to the danger of Iraq, of Saddam Hussein particularly. Why didn’t he tell us about Iran?”