Bush Meets Camus

How simply exquisite. Annoyed Bush calls his European critics "absurd":

An animated President George Bush has termed "absurd" the feeling among some Europeans that the US is more of a threat to stability than North Korea and Iran...

Where to start? How about this:

The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.

"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.

Yeah, that breathless account is from FOX News. It took only one phone call to de-bunk the hoax:

... these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded. And... these are not the WMD's this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had-and not the WMD's for which this country went to war.