This comes from John Aravosis direct from the tarmac of the Chicago O'Hare Airport. He notes with astonishment that Vice President Dick Cheney continues to peddle the suspect claim that Saddam Hussein has "long-standing ties to Al Quaeda." Am I crazy, wonders Aravosis, or is this the same bs that the Bush-Cheney administration peddled before the war and has had to back off repeatedly when it couldn't offer any facts? This quote is buried in a New York Times article in which the Red Cross politely suggests that Saddam Hussein will have to be charged with something soon in order to stay within the internationally accepted standards of the Geneva Convention. Of course, the Red Cross forgets that Bush has long since discarded the Geneva Convention as a tiresome bunch of rules that don't apply to him. God help our underpaid, overworked, stretched-thin men and women in uniform if and when they ever get captured by enemy combatants.
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