One thing's for certain...

Bush says, “One thing's for certain, Saddam Hussein no longer threatens America with weapons of mass destruction.” Certain, except for the fact that we don’t know where either Hussein or the weapons actually are.

More Bush logic: “Some in Congress say the plan is too big. Well, it seems like to me they might have some explaining to do. If they agree that tax relief creates jobs, then why are they for a little bitty tax relief package?” So if we eliminated taxes altogether....

Actually, he’s used that type of argument before. On Iraq, in March: “These governments share our assessment of the danger, but not our resolve to meet it.” Basically, if you show any willingness to compromise with Bush, he claims you accept all his premises and are therefore a hypocrite for not following him 100%.

Card #11 was captured today (well, turned himself in, as most of them have--we’re just not very good at finding stuff or people in Iraq). Leaving the question, where are all these prisoners disappearing to?

One place they’re not going is the witness box. The Justice Department is trying to deny Zacarias Moussaoui the right to question an Al Qaeda leader in US custody. Justice is saying that intelligence-gathering comes above, well, justice. OK, it’s actually fine for the government to decide that, but in that case it doesn’t get to have both, and Moussaoui should be free to go.

Some peace activists allege that they’ve mysteriously wound up on the FAA “do not fly” list, a list which is supposed to be for terrorists, not pacifists, and certainly not people who just happen to be critics of Bush.

The talks with North Korea are going well. Really. Remember how the talks to end the Korean War went on and on and on, taking months just to decide the shape of the table? Well here at the very first meeting, the N Korean delegate says, yeah we have nuclear weapons, we may test them, we may use them, we may sell them, and then said, and this is evidently a quote, What are you going to do about it? Now that’s rapid progress!

You’ll remember a Florida law insisting that women giving up babies for adoption recite their sexual histories for the court. This just got struck down.