The Black Republican

The Free Republic has found an old Washington Post article quoting a Clinton administration official saying there was a link between bin Laden and Iraq. The official's name: Richard Clarke.

But the funny part comes from the Blogs for Bush entry for this new piece of news:

Welcome to the Blogosphere, Clarke.

UPDATE: Okay, I'm slow, but I see the pattern better now. Clarke is saying in the late '90's that there's a link between bin Laden and Iraq. 9/11 happens. (Despite Clarke's assertions, I remember very well the confusion running through the country for the following week, as we tried to come to grips with what happened and who did it. There was considerable speculation if it was bin Laden (who most of us had never really heard of before) or Hussein (who most of us most definately had).) Condi turns to the man who developed the links between the two back in the Clinton administration and asks him assess if Iraq had anything to do with it. When the War Cabinet met a week later, Iraq was "not on the agenda". Having developed the information for the links, but not a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, Clarke may have been seen by the Administration as the counter-terrorism version of John Kerry: he says both things are true so he can claim credit regardless of what happens. The one exception to this behavior were his assertions regarding cyber-attacks, which seemed to have gone nowhere. So the Administration dumps him into a position managing Internet security to get him out of the line of fire while real men get to work. Next election cycle, while we're in Iraq fighting the War on Terror without him, the disaffected Clarke is writing his memoirs....