Saddam Hussein had no relationship with al Qaeda

Saddam Hussein had no relationship with al Qaeda, including Iraq-based guerrilla Abu Musab al Zarqawi, despite claims by President George W. Bush and other administration officials, a Senate report released last Friday said.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Senators defy Bush on tribunals

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Senators defy Bush on tribunals

A US Senate committee has defied President George W Bush by rejecting legislation to set up trials for foreign terrorism suspects. Senators showed some backbone today and voted 15-9 to back a milder bill, which Mr Bush has vowed to block.

Bush Confesses to War Crimes and other news

VIDEO (thanks C-Span): Bush's news conference | Transcript

Bush whined over and over again that the Geneva Conventions are too vague. Huh? Not only are they quite clear, also clear is the Bush regime's deliberate and repeated violation of them…hence his motivation now.

Chimpy's unnerving manic behavior today was also evident on Monday's Today Show interview. See it here. What's wrong with this guy?!

Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has exposed a White House scheme to force military lawyers to sign on to their plan to shred the Geneva Conventions. After 5 hours of coercion, the lawyers refused and walked.

Bush says that Osama just isn't a priority.

Iraq is now building a moat around Baghdad.

Princeton releases a video of how they hacked a Diebold machine.



**Thanks to The Randi Rhodes Show for these links**