The Iraqi Connection - the campaign continues

Now that the "No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda" headlines have had a couple of days to take effect, the mainstream press comes around admitting, well now, maybe there's a connection after all. The Power Line points out an article from the Washington Post "Iraqi Officer Linked to Al Qaeda". Strangely, you won't find the article on the front page. It rates page A9 in importance. Imagine that! Of course, it contradicts Kerry's recent claim.

The Bush administration, he claimed, "misled America." "The administration took its eye off al Qaeda, took its eye off of the real war on terror in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan and transferred it for reasons of its own to Iraq." And "the United States of America should never go to war because it wants to; we should only go to war because we have to."

But the story says:

The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been told "a very prominent member" of al Qaeda served as an officer in Saddam Hussein's militia, a panel member said yesterday.

True to form, the Washington Post declines to put a contradiction so detrimental to their candidate's election chances right out there on the front page, and instead buries it on page A9. Will the press win again in November as they did in 1992? They may not. There are more news sources these days.