Did I miss something? I’m scanning the news, trying to get it from different sources, trying to figure out what the heck’s going on and why, and a few things are popping out at me.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s been indicted in a campaign finance scheme. He says it’s politically motivated. Well, duh. But I liked this. Straight from the horse’s mouth, folks, no spin whatsoever. Tom DeLay, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

DELAY: Ronnie Earle does this to all his political enemies. He did it to conservative Democrats. He did it €” and he does it to Republicans. And particularly in my case, he did it in conjunction and working with the Democrat leadership here in Washington, D.C.
BLITZER: Well, that€™s an explosive charge you make, that there was some sort of collusion or conspiracy between Ronnie Earle and Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in the Congress. What evidence, if any, do you have to back that up?
DELAY: It€™s very good evidence, that they announced this strategy publicly, they put it on their website and this strategy is in their fund-raising letters.
BLITZER: Who specifically €” who announced this?
DELAY: The DCCC, the Democratic Campaign Committee, run by Chairman Rahm Emanuel.

Here’s when we’ll see that evidence.

DELAY: When it€™s timely.
BLITZER: What does that mean?
DELAY: When it€™s timely.

 

Whatever. The strategy to attack DeLay was on the website? Must’ve missed it. And no one in their right mind would send me a fundraising letter, so I guess that explains it.

 

Something else I’m missing–where are the weapons of mass destruction Iraq had? Hey, look, they’re talking about us.

 

Blix says US misled itself, the world on Iraq

 

WMD reports, satellite photos called lacking

 

By Russell Contreras, (Boston) Globe Staff | October 22, 2005

 

MEDFORD — Bush administration officials misled themselves on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ”then they misled the world,” Hans Blix, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector said yesterday. Boston Globe

 

Yep. Bush administration officials seem very good at that.

 

Another thing I’m missing–did we forget Osama bin Laden?

 

Here’s what I get when I Google him:

 

PESHAWAR: An MI6/SAS team has joined US Special Forces in earthquake-devastated Balakot to search for Osama Bin Laden among thousands of victims still buried, British newspaper the Sunday Express reports.  daily times

 

A New Voice for a New Pakistan, it says at the top. Very cool. But why is that news only in Pakistan? That is the only news result I got on the first page when I Googled that man’s name. Could it be because some people would rather we heard the more satisfying news of Saddam Hussein scuffling with his guards, than that maybe that murderer bin Laden is already facing a more final judgement than any we could give?

 

After we searched years for him, if God got him first–what a letdown that would be.

 

I wonder how Saddam Hussein feels, knowing we only went after him because someone had to be caught? It must be bitter indeed. Not that he doesn’t deserve it.

 

Here’s something else. Old, but still relevant.

 

Bush’s defenders say the administration’s rhetoric was not responsible for the public perception of Hussein’s involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. While Hussein and al Qaeda come from different strains of Islam and Hussein’s secularism is incompatible with al Qaeda fundamentalism, Americans instinctively lump both foes together as Middle Eastern enemies. “The intellectual argument is there is a war in Iraq and a war on terrorism and you have to separate them, but the public doesn’t do that,” said Matthew Dowd, a Bush campaign strategist. “They see Middle Eastern terrorism, bad people in the Middle East, all as one big problem.” Washington Post

 

So that’s the problem. He never said it, we’re all just idiots.

 

You know all them there Arab-type folk look alike to me. (please note–sarcasm!!!)

 

(Is it just me, or does talking about ‘strains’ of Islam make it sound like he’s talking about a disease? And does anyone really believe Hussein or bin Laden actually care what their religion says? They don’t represent Islam any more than Stephen John Jordi represents my faith. CNN)