Used and abused

By Creature

A few weeks back, in order to cut out the main-stream middle man, the White House agreed to release a bunch of pre-war Iraqi documents with the hope that the conservative blogosphere could find a link between Saddam and Osama. A link here-to-fore discredited. The fact that the 9/11 commission found no such collaborative link has not stopped the rabid right from declaring that Saddam and Osama were not only working together, but that they were lovers as well. Thankfully Peter Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know, takes apart the right's wild fantasies in an op-ed in today's NYT. This paragraph alone should shut the wing-nuts up:

And, strangely, another document, dated Aug. 17, 2002, from Iraq's intelligence service explains there is "information from a reliable source" that two Al Qaeda figures were in Iraq and that agents should "search the tourist sites (hotels, residential apartments and rented houses)" for them. If Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had a relationship, why was it necessary for Iraqi intelligence to be scouring the country looking for members of the terrorist organization? [Emphasis Added]

Right-wingers, please, get over it already. Your denial runs so deep. Your president lied to you. He "fixed" whatever facts he could find, around whatever intelligence he could find, and he sold you a bill a goods so steeped in lies that even Saddam is having a good laugh over it. So, let go, dear right-winger, admit you have been used. Admit that you have been abused. We won't forgive for playing the fool, and we certainly won't forget, but maybe we can understand.

Therapy more.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)