Nothing new

On Friday, the White House spokesman, Tony Snow, played down the reports, saying that they contained "“nothing new" and were "re-litigating things that happened three years ago."

What's he talking about? Oh, just the little, pesky, inconvenient but not important fact that Saddam Hussein had nothing whatsoever to do with al Zarqawi or indeed any Qaida operative. Now, of course, Iraq is crawling with them, but back then...

Now, this report Snow is so dismissive of was completed last October. The White House hasn't stopped saying it though: just last month Bush said that Hussein "“had relations with Zarqawi."’

That this is a lie is "“nothing new"’, though, so let's just move on and pretend it never happened.

Nothing to see here, folks.

Nothing new, that is.