Senior GOP Senator lies about Saddam, says he had ties to Al Qaeda when it's already been determined he has not

At some point, the media needs to just eat these people for lunch. It is not acceptable for any Senator, let alone a senior member of the Senate who is often spoken about as a possible Republican supreme court nominee, to outright lie about key facts concerning the war on terror. The bipartisan 9/11 commission already determined that Saddam had NO ties to Al Qaeda, so why is Republican Senator Orrin Hatch still saying he did?

Is this why Hatch is in favor of Bush's illegal domestic spying program, because Hatch has no idea as to the facts surrounding anything dealing with the war on terror?

Utah and America deserve better than men in power who are either outright liars or simply so out of touch so as not to have any idea what's really going on.