OK, look at today's White House Press Briefing and you'll see this little gem. I'm sure there are more of these, but I'm only six questions in or so.

A reporter asked a very good question about the lack of weapons of mass destruction turned up in Iraq. He asked why the American people shouldn't conclude that they were never there in the first place. Here's Ari Fleischer's brilliant response:

MR. FLEISCHER: Frankly, I think the burden on this falls to the President's critics. They're the ones who have to explain, after the United Nations, themselves, found that Iraq had failed to account for tons, for liters of botulin toxin and risin and anthrax -- is one to assume that Iraq waited for the United Nations inspectors to get thrown out of the country in order for Iraq then to destroy what everyone acknowledged that they had, and that Iraq failed to tell anybody they actually destroyed it?

Ignoring his sentence structure (which is hard to do), let's play pretend. Here's how this argument goes.

White House: We're going to war.
Public: Oh really? Why?
White House: They have weapons.
Public: Oh really? How do you know?
White House: Trust us.
[time passes]
Public: Hey, uh... did you find any weapons?
White House: No.
Public: Why not?
White House: WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME?!!? HUH! THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU!!