Sunday, April 9, 2006
The big Iraqi document release continues to produce interesting stuff. Take a look at this post at Captain's Quarters: Saddam Targeted American Assets For Terrorism: Case Closed (via Augean Stables)
They also have a follow-up here, that's highly speculative but interesting: The Timing Of The Iraqi Air Force Memo, and you may as well not miss 'The Iraqi Regime Has Transported The Chemical And Biological Weapons' while you're there.
The trouble is that the "Bush [or Cheney] lied" thing has reached a point for a massive enough number of people that mutual self-assurance carries it on in a self-perpetuating wave into which contradictory evidence almost cannot intrude.
Here's what will have to happen: A Democrat will have to win the White House, which will allow information sources sufficiently influential with the mutually assured delusion folks -- like the New York Times, Boston Globe and the major networks -- to trip up their momentum and allow them to process this new info....whereupon Bush & co. won't actually get any credit, but some formula will be discovered whereby...I dunno...Harry Reid was really right all along, Saddam was a threat, but Democrats would have handled the past eight years better...something like that anyway.