Special edition Monopoly games came with literal “get out jail free” cards (in the form of silk maps, miniature files for cutting bars, and real money mixed in with fake bucks) for some POWs locked up in Germany during World War II, according to a fascinating new report.

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During a press conference this morning, President George W. Bush said he didn’t have all of the information he now has when he made the statement about Iran and World War III back in August. Still, he did not say he was irresponsible for prematurely raising the possibility of war.

Yesterday’s National Intelligence Estimates indicated “with high confidence” that Iran “halted its nuclear weapons” four years ago, in the fall of 2003.

Concurrently, Bush argued that “nothing has changed” — that Iran is still just as dangerous as ever. “To me it’s a way to continue to rally our partners,” he said.

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After a speech last night at the University of Colorado, former Attorney General John Ashcroft took questions from an audience of skeptical students, professors and several war protesters. The first question, Think Progress recalls, came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding. “The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do,” Ashcroft is quoted as replying.

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Bill Clinton is again making questionable statements while on the campaign trail for his wife. This time around, he appears to be rewriting history when it comes to whether he supported the Iraq war from the beginning.

“Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning,” Clinton said on the trail yesterday, according to news reports, “I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers.”

But a transcript from a speech Clinton delivered during 2003 commencement at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi he’s quoted as saying the following: “I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

This misstatement is the latest in a series of gaffes from President Clinton. In recent weeks, he took credit for the failure to reform health care while in office, inadvertently drawing more attention to his wife’s role in that situation, and, to much criticism, he has responded to Barack Obama’s questions about Hillary Clinton’s age and honesty.

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