Low Comedy

Reg Henry:

The other day, the smarter clown, the one who had five exemptions from the war of his generation and who may really be in charge, was on the Rush Limbaugh show -- the Mecca of clowndom -- once again peddling the old line about al-Qaida being linked to Saddam, a notion now so threadbare a nudist could carry it at a summer picnic without compromising his nakedness.

But the real joke was that he spoke on the very day that the Pentagon declassified a report that said, as the Washington Post reported, Saddam's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaida before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Most of us knew this already, but this fellow doesn't. Funny isn't it? If you are not sobbing yet, look for more hilarity because for this vice presidential prankster and his straight-man president no joke is worth repeating like an old joke.

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Supporting the troops might mean insisting that they be deployed sensibly on ground not favorable to the enemy. Instead, it will mean insisting shamelessly that they go back to Iraq for three, four, five -- perhaps six or seven tours? -- and still fight in the midst of a civil war.

Osama bin Laden is laughing all right. More than four years into this tragi-comedy, he and his pals can be the only ones.

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