Dick Cheney is truly delusional. He's asserting again that al Qaeda and Iraq were linked together...even though one of the masterminds of September 11 who is US custody, Kalid Shiekh Mohammed, has repeatedly told interrogators that al Qaeda refused to work with Saddam Hussein's regime because they viewed it as corrupt, and, even worse, secular.

Colin Powell himself has recently said that he's seen no "smoking gun evidence" of a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.

Yet, Cheney insists there is a link, based on the claims that Abdul Rachman Yasin, who was involved in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was given a safe house in Iraq and allegedly put on the payroll. Well for crying out loud, Dick...by your logic, then you have to admit that there is a strong connection between the Bush family and al Qaeda AND the Bush family and Saddam Hussein, as Papa Bush had them both come through his CIA programs!

Regarding WMD's, here's a textbook example of murky-speak from Tricky Dicky: "We've found a couple of semi-trailers at this point which we believe were in fact part of (a WMD) program. I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did in fact have programs for weapons of mass destruction." WTF? A tenuous at best connection to a program of WMD is not the same thing as those WMDs that Team Bush told us could easily reach targets on the US East Coast.

And, as I said, this is at best very flimsy evidence, especially since David Kay AND the late David Kelly have cast serious doubt on any sort of WMD/mobile WMD program.

Just because Team Bush implies a connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, it doesn't make it true. And just because Team Bush says a couple of flatbed trucks is conclusive evidence of a program of weapons of mass destruction, does not mean that Iraq has WMD's.

And the lies that Team Bush told Americans (and the world) have cost the lives of more than five hundred US soldiers and thousands of Iraqi citizens and untold numbers of wounded.