WTF Is It Now?!?

9/11 credibility gap
Honor, integritude

Hussein's ties to the attacks? Show us the proof.

EJ Dionne Jr. tells the Bush WH "put up or shut up":

Why have the Bush administration and some of the staunchest supporters of the Iraq war gone nuts over the Sept. 11 commission's staff report debunking the idea that there were close ties between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda?

Simple: The battle over the al Qaeda-Hussein connection is ground zero in the fight over the administration's credibility. (snip)

pResident Bush and Vice pResident Cheney did their part, before and after the war, to link Hussein to al Qaeda. They insist now that they never actually connected the Iraqi regime to Sept. 11. But those claims look like the sort of careful parsing of words that Bill Clinton is trying to explain in his new book.

I guess it depends on what the meaning of "sinister nexus" is...