… and explain yourself.

As you know, Michelle Bachmann, congresswoman from the Chagrined State of Minnesota, was recently caught in either a badly bundered lie designed to make her look important, or an episode of psychotic (or very neurotic) hallucination, when she gave explicit details about a secret plan to partition Iraq.

She later retracted the statement, but the thing is, this is not a horse that is going to go back into the barn.

Yesterday, the Saint Cloud Times (that’s a small city in her district) requested in an editorial that … “She needs to fully explain either how she knows of a plan to split Iraq in half, or if she was talking over her head — way over her head — in making that statement.”

The editorial continues:

The problem here is Bachmann’s statements are recorded. There really is nothing to misconstrue, nor even misunderstand. She simply needs to explain what she said.

If it’s true, where did she get her information? (Remember, she did say she had received “classified information on the war effort” during a Pentagon briefing in late January.)

If it’s not true, what was she trying to accomplish with her podcast comments?

This isn’t about a kiss. Or partisan legislation. It’s about a nation at war.

The questions are really very simple. Just answer them.

This is also being discussed on Think Progress.