How can we look the other way?

Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a new report detailing how the Bush Administration misled our nation into war with Iraq. According to The New York Times, the report "concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies."

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the committee's chairman, said the report showed that the president and vice president made a case that was "fundamentally misleading and led the nation to war on false premises." If Rockefeller's statement is true, then Bush and Cheney must be punished.

At a minimum, Congress should begin a formal inquiry. This isn't about politics. If we were lied into war -- and I say if because until there is legal proceeding of some sort, the matter will be up for debate --  then the one thing we cannot do is nothing, because if we do nothing, it will just happen again.