Pathological Liars

Can you believe it? With 55 per cent of the USA now believing the war with Iraq was not worth fighting, Dick Cheney is STILL pushing the Saddam-Al Quaeda link, bizarrely quoting documents that haven't even been reviewed yet as proof:

...a lot of those documents that were captured over there that have not yet been evaluated offer additional evidence that, in fact, there was a relationship that stretched over many years between Saddam Hussein and the al Qaeda organization.

Josh Marshall suggests that Dick's lying is just about compulsive.

Maybe it's just a reaction to the medicine he is taking for his bum leg, like that "shortness of breath" episode which had him hospitalized earlier this week? Or maybe he just trying to write his own political obituary before he gets dumped "for health reasons"?

Or maybe there is something wrong with the water in the Oval Office? Bush advisor Andrew Card is telling reporters that “the war on terror must be won in order to be able to have this sound economy”. How's that? Is Osama going to cop the blame for that massive deficit now? Talk about linkage!

Or maybe half the USA has just gone plain nuts:

A Washington Post-ABC News poll this week found 51 percent favored the domestic eavesdropping as a way to fight terrorism, while 47 percent did not. A Pew Research Center poll found 48 percent of respondents thought Bush's actions were generally right, and 47 percent thought they were generally wrong.

Both polls found a partisan divide, with Republicans supporting the effort by much larger margins than Democrats.

No wonder 62% of the USA believes that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track".