They don't need no stinkin truth...

Blogger is supposed to go down for maintainence any minute now, so let me just pop up the links to what I've been reading this morning. No real surprises so far. Just the usual deceit.

We knew this already. The Senate finally released two small portions of their 9/11 investigation and found there was absolutely no nexus between Saddam and AQ. Neither did Saddam have any underground alliance with Zarqawi. He was trying to take him down.

The only surprise in this story is that paragon of moderate thinking, Joe Gandelman comes right out and calls the Bush administration liars. Joe's not usually given to such harsh rhetoric.

We knew this too. Rummy had absolutely no plan for the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. What we didn't know is that he threatened to fire anyone in the Pentagon who insisted on mentioning the wisdom of producing such a plan. I guess the old Ambien-addled fool really did believe he could roll in and roll out while the Iraqis threw roses at his feet.

This is certainly no surprise for anyone who has been paying attention. As far as the recent death toll in Iraq, it depends on who's doing the counting. The real figures appear to be at least three times greater than the official counts. I suspect that's still an underestimation.

Oy. What a world.