Like Trite to Truth

The big story? The links between Al Quaeda and Hussein are coming out.

Silly America's response?

The New York Times ladles out wholesale lots of specious illogic.

And the blogosphere's lefties are eating it up with the credulousness we've come to expect.

Two weeks ago on the Northern Alliance Radio Network Stephen Hayes stated the case as we know it today: that more and more circumstantial evidence ties Hussein to Al Quaeda; that terror groups are amorphous and frequently exchange people, money and missions; that while we don't yet know whether Hussein was tied to 9/11 or not but the case is far from closed.

The response from the left: From the predictable - in the media, from the Times:

...to the Star/Tribune

How about the blogging left? From some, I never expected much. From others - like others, like Oliver Willis, from whom I used to expect better - well, regurtitation, plus:

Prove It

As the right-wing backed (AEI, Weekly Standard) Stephen Hayes attempts to shore up book sales with another rear-covering article, the NYT (in a rare display of ballsiness) calls the Bushies out:

In other words, "Put your hands over your eyes, ears and mouth! It's neocons!". As to the "Call-out' - well, some of us are out. And if this past week is any indication, maybe the Administration is following.

Fearless prediction; in five years, the left will be claiming they knew about the link between Hussein and Al Quaeda all along and be demanding hearings about why the Administration wasn't doing something about it in 2004.

NYTimes

Posted by Mitch at June 21, 2004 05:21 AM