This is going to be frustrating:

Top White House officials say they’re developing a “campaign-style” strategy in response to increasing Democratic allegations that the Bush administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war.

White House aides, who agreed to speak to CNN only on the condition of anonymity, said they hoped to increase what they called their “hit back” in coming days.

The officials say they plan to repeatedly make the point — as they did during the 2004 campaign — that pre-war intelligence was faulty, it was not manipulated and everyone was working off the same intelligence.

They hope to arm GOP officials with more quotes by Democrats making the same pre-war claims as Republicans did about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

It’s ridiculous that we’re even debating this issue. The evidence is all on the public record — see chapter 8 of All the President’s Spin ($11.20 at Amazon!). In addition, as a number of people have pointed out, the fact that Democrats thought Saddam had biological and chemical weapons is true but irrelevant. The administration not only distorted the evidence on biological and chemical weapons, but dramatically twisted it in hyping its claims about nuclear weapons and links to Al Qaeda.