Alterman: Psst, someone tell Cheney

This just in:  “Panel Sees No Cooperation By Iraq-Al Qaeda on Attacks”  I wonder if anyone will mention this to Dick Cheney.   I’m sure he’ll want to call Tim Russert et al and apologize immediately for all the false information he’s been spreading since, approximately, September 12, 2001.

Quote of the Day:  “You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror”.
-President George W. Bush, September, 2002

A Regan Era Golden Oldie:  Remember how loveable and optimistic Ronald Reagan was?  Remember how he did nothing but make us feel good about ourselves and restore respect for America; our moral values and our position of leadership in the world?  I was reading the galley pages of When Presidents Lie yesterday and came across this episode.  Funny how it didn’t make it into any of the SCLM coverage last week.  Tim?  Chris?  I’m here for you guys if you need it.  Footnotes are free:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/


The panel's findings appear to contradict Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion Monday that Saddam had "long-established ties" with al-Qaida.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5223932/

If you scroll down, you will see an email I sent to Alterman. I was so happy that he put it up. I wrote it rather hastily and wish I would have done it better, but hey, it's there! I was so happy!

Name: M. Aldridge
Hometown: Springfield
LOL! Are you really a "liberal commie faggot, pus bag socialist, low down miserable, twisted, scum bag opportunist, whose mind has turned to a blob of black gelatin?" Are you really a "terrorist loving, anti-American, blame America first douchebag?" Are you really a "freak of nature, sad little man (or pathetic weak little man) who crawled out from under Clinton's desk?" Or, are you a "scum sucking weasel without a sense of dignity and a poster boy for abortion who is a communist menace and enemy of God and America who has homosexual friends?"

And those on the right "are bored with the NASTY left wing, Godless-do-whatever-you-want-to-do-mantra from people like you"?

For many of us, you say what needs to be said.

Every time Cheney asserts the Iraq-al Qaeda link the media picks it up and reports it (with or without clarification), and those people who are half-listening, half-thinking hear something about an Iraq-al Qaeda link that gets remembered as there actually being an Iraq-al Qaeda link.

This is very simple and very cost-effective from the Bush-Cheney standpoint -- especially since the media continually let him get away with it. But it's way past time to start calling Cheney on this; and if he doesn't budge, then it's time to put a tinfoil cap on his bald head and start seriously questioning his mental fitness for office.