WashingtonPost.com’s Dan Froomkin nailed the latest prevarications from White House spokesman Tony Snow in his column Friday:

All modern White House press secretaries can reasonably be expected to spend a lot of their time trying to spin the facts to make their boss look good. But in his fervor to make his case, Snow sometimes says things that are simply not true.

In the latest example, Max Blumenthal writes for Raw Story that at his speech yesterday to CPAC, Snow insisted: "We didn’t create the war in Iraq. We didn’t create the war on terror."

One could certainly argue that the 9/11 terrorist attacks demanded an aggressive response and that President Bush’s campaign against terror was not a matter of choice. But the war on Iraq was a war of choice if there ever was one. The Iraqis didn’t start it.

To say the White House didn’t create that war may be a thrilling rhetorical flourish, but it is also a blatant rewriting of history.

I’ve been chronicling Snow’s more egregious behavior in my column.

Among the recent examples: Snow’s assertion in a Feb. 6 briefing that "by some calculations" Bush’s tax cuts "have paid for themselves and then some." Bush himself has found all sorts of artful ways to imply that his tax cuts have paid for themselves, without exactly saying as much — because it’s simply not true, as even Bush’s economic advisers admit. But Snow has no such scruples. (See the "Tax Cuts Don’t Pay for Themselves" section of my Feb. 7 column.)