Joe is mad as hell

In the long tradition of publishing bad news on Friday, the Senate has finally released their report on the investigation of links (or lack thereof) between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida. And guess what – there weren’t any. From the AP:

There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war.

No shit – really? You are kidding me. See, I thought that they said, oh well, never mind…

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates," according to excerpts of the 400-page report provided by Democrats.

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

White House press secretary Tony Snow played down the report as "nothing new."

And that lying sack of shit Tony Snow can kiss my ass (shaking my fist in rage). Continuing:

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the committee, said the long-awaited report was "a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts" to link Saddam to al-Qaida.

You’re goddam right it is. This Administration is chock-a-block full of idiots and liars. They knowingly peddled the fiction that Saddam and Osama were in cahoots. The consequences of that falsehood are dead soldiers, dead Iraqis, people losing their limbs and their minds, and a nation in total fucking chaos. That fact should be driven home with every opportunity from now until the election. It is time to make these nefarious bastards pay. November 7 people – get your asses to the polls and vote. When the Democrats take Congress, the real fun begins…