Everytime the get caught lying

The Bush Administration always says it's "old news".

You know, I think in less than two months we can safely say the same about the GOP Congress.

Far from aligning himself with al-Qaeda and Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Hussein repeatedly rebuffed al-Qaeda's overtures and tried to capture Zarqawi, the report said. Tariq Aziz, the detained former deputy prime minister, has told the FBI that Hussein "only expressed negative sentiments about [Osama] bin Laden."

The report also said exiles from the Iraqi National Congress (INC) tried to influence U.S. policy by providing, through defectors, false information on Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capabilities. After skeptical analysts warned that the group had been penetrated by hostile intelligence services, including Iran's, a 2002 White House directive ordered that U.S. funding for the INC be continued.

The newly declassified intelligence report provided administration critics with fresh ammunition, less than two months before midterm elections and in the middle of President Bush's campaign to refocus the public's attention away from Iraq and toward the threat of terrorism. Senior Senate Democrats immediately seized on the findings, using some of their strongest language yet to say the president continues to willfully and falsely connect Hussein to al-Qaeda.

As recently as Aug. 21, Bush suggested a link between Hussein and Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed by U.S. forces this summer. But a CIA assessment in October 2005 concluded that Hussein's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates," according to the report.

"The president is still distorting. He's still making statements which are false," said Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), an intelligence committee member.

Accountability is what it is all about. The GOP refuses to hold a President that lies as he breathes about the "big" things like national security to any form of account.

On NBC yesterday it was revealed that Crashcart Cheney, the Administrations most profane liar, will be on Russert on Sunday. If Little Russ cannot manage to rake Cheney over the coals regarding this report he should be driven out of town in shame. Every word out of Cheney's mouth, including the "and" and the "the" have been lies. He's not a statesman, as this report conclusively demonstrates, he's a war criminal guilty of starting a war of aggression under all existing tenets of international law by manufacturing evidence to get himself (and the rest of the Administration) the war he wanted.

A war, he has managed to top off by not winning and causing the deaths of innocent thousands.

If Timmah can't handle that, any number of us will gladly volunteer for the assignment.

And while we are at it, this article comes from a reporter at the Washington Post, perhaps Fred Hiatt will want to fucking read it and then crawl off to his hole in shame.