News Flash!

Guess what? The CIA released a report today which concludes that Sadaam Hussein had no ties with Al Qaeda. This conclusion is not particularly earth-shattering to those of us on the left who never believed any nexus existed between the erstwhile Iraqi president and the Saudi Arabian terrorists ostensibly responsible for the 911 attacks. In fact, the absence of a link between Hussein and Bin Laden should surprise no one but a right-wing Ostrich who has had his head up his ass for the last four years. The report discloses for the first time, an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates”. A Washington Post poll taken in 2002 revealed that 67% of American’s thought Hussein had something to do with 911. They could perhaps be excused for thinking so in light of the fact that the 911 attacks had everyone thinking that there was a terrorist under every rock, but three years later the figure is still hovering at an unbelievable 45%. Who are these people? Did they all vote for Bush? Do they read and are they capable of critical thinking? These people scare me. Even Bush is sort of distancing himself from linking the two. It would be so convenient for the government if Saddam had something to do with 911 but it just ain’t so. As far as I can see the major flaw with the 911 conspiracy theories is that if the crazies helped plan and execute the attacks to drum up support for an Iraqi war they probably should have made a few of the hijackers Iraqi.