--Saddam's connections with the World Trade Center bombings must be resisted by the left most of all.--
Exactly. That would have been an INCONVENIENT
casus belli, and klintoon would have been skewered for his criminally negligent inaction in the face of state-sponsored terrorism. BJ used more firepower and manpower to kill the Branch Davidians than he ever did fighting al-Qaeda. So his Justice Dept. simply swept everything under the rug, while the media ignored the evidence.
Another convenient truth that was ignored: the fact that Zarqawi was in Iraq organizing the "insurgency" BEFORE the invasion. How the heck woild hundreds of foreign fighters just cross the border into Iraq, unless they had a pre-existing network of contacts, safehouses, etc? The leftist useful idiots' groupthink forces them to say "Saddam was secular. Al-Qaeda are religious fanatics. Therefore, they could NEVER have worked together".
More recently, the useful idiots are desperately trying to deny that the Iraq surge is working (Baghdad violence is generally dropping at this time, even though the surge has barely begun). All of this BS with Plame and the US attorney firings non-scandal are desperate attempts top suck the oxygen out of the real story, i.e. we are WINNING in Iraq.
Yeah.... They're appolectic about the surge, but maybe we can have a sense of humor about the thing,