Dithyrambia

Dick Cheney claimed again yesterday that Saddam Hussein "had long established ties with al Qaida." This canard was one of the several, ever-shifting rationales offered for making war in Iraq in the first place, but it has been almost completely discredited. Saddam's ties to al Qaida are more tenuous than the neocons' long-standing ties to Saddam Hussein. How long before Cheney once again contradicts Bush and claims that we've found WMDs in Iraq?


Dick Cheney salutes the James Madison Institute.