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September 9, 2006
There They Go Again
T
he NYTimes is reporting that a CIA report last fall to the Senate Intelligence Committee repudiated the Bush Adminitration's repeated -- and, per the CIA, clearly false -- claim that Saddam Hussein's government had an operational relationship with Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
One's reaction to this story could be, "Oh well, the CIA is full of disloyal, Bush haters devoted to ruining his presidency." Or, "Gee, the CIA has a pre-911 mindset and doesn't get 'it.'" Then there's, "Oh, appeasers have long had control of the CIA."
My favorite is, "The CIA just doesn't know what Cheney's working group on national security knew -- like Fox News, Shaun Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and the Powerline crew."
My money's on the last one. I for one believe, after having heard Bush and the Veep insinuate that Saddam had an Al Qaeda connection so many times, that it must be true -- otherwise, why would they keep repeating it?
Posted by shertaugh at September 9, 2006 6:27 AM