Pathological Liars

Speaking of lies...

Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee finally released a much-delayed report on the case that was made for the Iraq war. Among its key findings were that "There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida... Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none." The report also noted that Hussein saw Al Qaeda as a threat to his regime. Most of this has been known for some time, but the obvious cannot be confirmed enough. Why is that? Because nothing will ever stop the pathological liars in the White House from continuing to deceive the American people.

Case in point: Vice President Cheney's appearance yesterday on 'Meet the Press'.

Let's look at a transcript (with bold added by me)-

CHENEY: You’ve got Iraq and Al Qaeda, testimony from the Director of C.I.A. that there was indeed a relationship — Zarqawi in Baghdad. et cetera. Then the..

RUSSERT: The committee said there was no relationship. In fact, Saddam —

CHENEY: I haven’t seen the report. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

RUSSERT: But Mr. Vice President the bottom line is…

CHENEY: We know that Zarqawi running the terrorist camp in Afghanistan prior to 9/11. After we went in after 9/11, then fled and went to Baghdad and set up operations in Baghdad in the spring of 2002 and was there and then basically until the time we launched into Iraq.

Condoleeza Rice was also trying to reassert these debunked lies on Fox News.

It's amazing, but not even remotely surprising.

(Oh a reminder- they didn't plan for a post-war either and find the actual number of civilian deaths irrelevant. And that Iraqi constitution? It's seen better days.)

[PS- The Bush cultists over at Powerline are furious too... at the Senate Intelligence Committee for releasing this pesky report. Darn you, you... Republican-controlled Committee!! They then insist that we need to vote for Republicans this Fall, to, ummm, stop these Republicans from doing... ahh, whatever, I give up.]