Reality Bites

Bush and Cheney have both kind of admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, and found a new reason for the war - Saddam's abuse of the UN oil-for-food program. Cheney went so far as to say, "The headlines all say 'no weapons of mass destruction stockpiled in Baghdad.' We already knew that." Really? When? This follows on the heels of Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently telling the truth when he said of the connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two." After a quick bitch-slapping, he rescinded his statement.