Shorter William Safire
Found: A Smoking Gun
The more incredible a report is, the more authentic it must be. From this axiom, I conclude that a Kurdish group of terrorists requesting Al Qaeda's help after the war proves that Saddam and Bin Laden were in league before the war.
See also Christopher Allbritton's longer deflation of the Nixonian scribe's flights of fancy. It's really worth a read. And, Busy, Busy, Busy has a take that's both shorter and more eloquent than mine.
("Shorter" form stolen from Busy, Busy, Busy who stole it from D-Squared)
Posted by Chris at February 11, 2004 02:36 PM