This is getting tired...

Again, the Bush administration is trying to link Iraq and Al Qaeda. The Wasington Post quotes one administrative official worrying that, "to kind of throw this out there might be perceived as an act of desperation." Gee, ya think?

Douglas Kellner's response is spot on:

Here's what I think is happening: polls and Bush focus groups worry that war against Iraq would detract from war on terrorism, that it is more important to get AQ network shut down. Yet when confronted with arguments that there is an AQ-Iraq link, people come around to supporting military action against Iraq.

And, as we've noted, so far the Bush administration has simply lied about "new" evidence of Iraqi possessing WMD or the Al Qaeda link. As we've pointed out, when Bush flashed a picture of a newly constructed Iraqi building that was supposedly a site of nuclear construction, he stated "and that's all the evidence we need." Intelligence analysts were skeptical and the Iraqis let in reporters to see nothing was going on in the building concerning WMD. For some days, Rice, Cheney et al talked omniously about some cylinders Iraqis had bought that go into nuclear weapons construction whereas intelligence experts noted that these items could be used for any number of things. So the Bushites have been floating information regarding new evidence that so far is all crapola SO THEY HAVE ALREADY LOST THEIR CREDIBILITY. WHATEVER THEY SAY REGARDING EVIDENCE CANNOT BE BELIEVED. Ditto when Blair released his "dossier" of "new" material on Iraqi WMD programs, experts said it was the same old stuff long reported. SO BEWARE OF FALSE CLAIMS CONCERNING IRAQI WEAPONS AND LINKS TO AL QAEDA, such claims will be made just before the attack as a pretense if Bush follows Daddy Bush....