- An Intelligent Democrat, Evan Bayh, from Indiana, thinks that there was probably a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda too.
But even if there wasn’t a connection:There’s obviously a lot of smoke. The real question is how much fire was there. The best case — it certainly looks as if there were many contacts, some kind of relationship there. I guess the best answer is that this is a developing story and we’ll know more soon.
There’s also a detailed look at How the 45-minute claim got from Baghdad to No 10 (where the claim is that Saddam’s weapons couldLook, there were multiple reasons to remove Saddam Hussein, not the least of which was his butchering of his own people — that’s the kind of thing that most progressives used to care about. We were going to have to deal with him militarily at some time in the future. The possibility — even if people thought it unlikely — that he would use weapons of mass death or provide them to terrorists was just too great a risk.
be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them
) and then to the US. As for where the weapons are:Convinced that the weapons are still hidden in Iraq, Lt Col al-Dabbagh doesn’t believe any of them will be found until Saddam is caught or killed.
[instapundit] - Customer disputes Wal-Mart stampede story, saying there was no stampede. It also seems that the woman who was trampled has a history of getting injured and suing Wal-Mart. Dunno. Maybe she did get hurt, but she’s cried wolf an awful lot of times, from the sound of it. [fark!]
- Jim has a post over at The Usual Suspects on Civil Wrongs about a woman trying to fly around the country.
- Bill, over at End The War on Freedom linked to an article and asked if it’ time to start The Window War? It all fit together for me when I went searching for the Revulutionary Anarchist Bowling Leage and noticed that Jim’s the number one post on google. But a better history is in issue three of Daybreak! (sadly, only a PDF is available of the entire issue of the paper on their site, so I’ve put an HTML version and a PDF of just Scott’s article here on my site. I hope Scott won’t mind). A Window War might have some effect, but making large changes in the country is tough, especially when doing something like throwing a rock (or a bowling ball) through windows could get you arrested as a terrorist. But I guess that's the point of an oppressing police state, eh?