Nothing really new upon our return from vacation and a quick scan of the organs of mass communications favored by the chatting class. Just the usual coyote pack behavior of the media as they try to find something bad to pin on President Bush, no matter how spurious or meaningless.
I note that his visit to Africa is being essentially ignored by the western media in favor of a hyped-up contretemps about "falsified" evidence used in the leadup to the Iraq war. This synthetic controversy ignores the intricacies of translating intelligence into policy. More importantly, it conveniently distracts public attention from Bush's outreach to suffering Africans, thereby heading off any Republican payoff with African-American voters here at home. A cynical, but probably effective, effort by the media as they toil ceaselessly for the Democrats.
I do see one item of interest, courtesy of the omniscient Instapundit: interesting Iraqi evidence of a link between Saddam and Osama, as revealed by Federal appellate Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of Nashville, a noted Democrat from Tennessee.
Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden. I am looking at the document as I write this story from my hotel room overlooking the Tigris River in Baghdad.The document shows that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswod, assigned to the Iraq embassy in Pakistan, is ''responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.'' The document shows that it was written over the signature of Uday Saddam Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein.
via The Tennessean