Finally...An Actual [by which I, of course, mean merely potential...] Iraq-al Qaeda Link In An Act Of Terrorism In The U.S.?

Well, after years of lying about Iran's Iraq's links to 9/11, Bush may finally be on his way to being right about an Iraq-al Qaeda link in connection to an attack on the U.S.

The problem for Bush is that this team-up didn't cause us to invade Iraq; rather, it seems to have been enabled and caused by our invasion.

CNN.com reports that, according to a government intelligence report, al Qaeda may be planning to use operatives from Iran Iraq in an attack on the U.S.

As if another nail were needed in this coffin, here's yet another one for Bush's claim that the invasion of Iraq made us safer by hitting al Qaeda. Instead--just as opponents of the invasion predicted--it actually strengthened al Qaeda (both by taking the pressure off them in Afghanistan and by acting as a recruiting advertisement), gave them a training ground, and weakened the U.S. If al Qaeda now uses its new Iraqi assets directly in an attack inside the U.S. one would think that even this administration will no longer be able lie its way out of the political consequences.

[Note: JQ tells me she's already heard administration operatives trying to argue that this vindicates them, because it proves an Iraq-al Qaeda link...presumably hoping that people will infer that al Qaeda was in Iraq all along. Lying bastards.]