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If this is true, then we would seemingly have the makings of a conspiracy charge against President George W. Bush.

Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

The information was provided to Bush on September 21, 2001 during the "President's Daily Brief," a 30- to 45-minute early-morning national security briefing. Information for PDBs has routinely been derived from electronic intercepts, human agents, and reports from foreign intelligence services, as well as more mundane sources such as news reports and public statements by foreign leaders.

One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi nationals or even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its inner workings, according to records and sources.

The September 21, 2001, briefing was prepared at the request of the president, who was eager in the days following the terrorist attacks to learn all that he could about any possible connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Simply put: public officials were saying something publically--in concert--that was different from what they understood and were saying in private.

That's a conspiracy.

Bob Woodward, the latest "journalist" to be caught having misled the public on behalf of the Bush Administration, has the audacity to try this on us:

November 22, 2005
No Conspiracy Evidence Seen in Leak Case, Journalist Says

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Bob Woodward of The Washington Post said yesterday in a television interview that he had not seen any evidence that the Bush administration conspired to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who had publicly criticized the administration's rationale for the war in Iraq.

"Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?" Mr. Woodward said, according to a transcript of his taped appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live." "I haven't yet seen evidence of that."

In the first place, everyone knows you rarely--if ever--"see evidence" of a conspiracy. You think people write down "let us conspire to commit a crime"? Of course they don't--and Woodward knows it.

Conspiracy is, by its nature, determined from actions, not "evidence". All you need to get a public offical or officials for conspiracy is a pattern of public behavior on the part of more than one individual which differs from their private behavior. In other words, if two or more officials are saying one thing in private and another in public--the same thing--that is, de facto, a conspiracy.

Any chance that's happened in regard to the supposed threat of the WMD in Iraq? Oh yeah--you betcha it has. And Woodward has probably heard quite a bit of it.

In the second place, why would anyone believe anything Woodward has to say on this subject?

A lot of people were enlisted in the cause of convincing the American people that George W. Bush was qualified to be president of the United States.

The problem is that somewhere along the line they convinced HIM.

Sen. Kerry seems finally to have found a concise way to express himself.

"It is hard to name a government official with less credibility on Iraq than Vice President Cheney," Kerry said in a statement. "The Vice President continues to mislead America about how we got into Iraq and what must be done to complete the still unaccomplished mission.

"My commitment to our country has been steadfast from the day I signed up to serve in the Navy through my service as a United States Senator fighting for our troops and our national security. Too often when it's been time to tell the truth to the American people, Vice President Cheney has had other priorities.

"While the Vice President engages in the politics of fear and smear, Americans want their government to honor the memory of the more than 2,000 brave Americans lost in Iraq, and they have not forgotten that Osama bin Laden remains on the loose. If the Bush White House cared as much about our troops as they do about their plummeting political fortunes, they would at last offer a clear strategy for success in Iraq and work to bring home 20,000 troops after the successful Iraqi elections. Then, and only then, would they be even beginning to offer leadership equal to our soldiers' sacrifice."

Hmm..."fear and smear" sounds a little familiar....

In the unlikely event you haven't seen it yet, the New York Times has FINALLY called George W. Bush on his war in Iraq:

"It's obvious that the Bush administration misled Americans about Mr. Hussein's weapons and his terrorist connections."

"If science proves some beliefs of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change" - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

What, is he crazy?

This guy will never rule the world with THAT kind of thinking. I'll bet he doesn't even have a Hummer!

President Bush says that anyone who disagrees with him is undermining the troops.

Pat Robertson says that anyone who disagrees with him has rejected God.

Hmmm...what do they have in common?

Send in your answers!

All is not lost.

DOVER, Pa. Voters ousted eight GOP school board members who backed a controversial policy to introduce high school students to ''intelligent design,'' replacing them with a slate of Democratic candidates opposed to the requirement, which critics said promoted a form of creationism.

The United States is now a country in which one state has officially redefined the word "science" to encompass super-natural phenomena.

See, you thought we were joking, but it was true.

...as criticism of FEMA began to mount, Taylor offered her boss some sartorial advice: "Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt ...all shirts. Even the President rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this cris[is] and on TV you just need to look more hard-working...ROLL UP THE SLEEVES."