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The Big Lie that the Left and its media auxiliary are now telling is not that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. That proposition has become increasingly difficult to maintain, in light of many thousands of pages of documentary evidence to the contrary. Instead, what they are now doing (in a coordinated fashion, I will further observe) is to spread disinformation in a form apparatchiks of the old KGB would doubtless recognize.

The lie is this: that Republicans generally, and the Administration and Republican candidates for President in particular have (falsely) claimed that Saddam was involved with 9/11.

The purpose of this lie is obviously to discredit Republicans as well as to cast into doubt the ethical underpinnings of the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war. It is evidently designed to put on the defensive people who have never claimed what they are accused of claiming, while diverting public attention from the demonstrable involvement of Saddam with Al Qaeda and the current presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

This is what truly good disinformatsia is designed to do: to place its targets on the defensive while obscuring the aims of those who tell the lie. I have now seen this meme emerge several times during the past week in the media and in the left-wing Blogosphere, and cannot help but believe it is no accident.

I'd be interested in your thoughts.

The purpose of this lie is obviously to discredit Republicans as well as to cast into doubt the ethical underpinnings of the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war

Exactly true. The tactic is to attribute a lie to your opponent as liberals did to the Republicans so they can descredit them on the issue of Saddam regime strong relation to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Imagine that in 2003 the President came forth and said we have absolute proof that Saddam regime met with Bin Laden and Zawahiri, the war would have had much more support then and now.