More Grown-ups, please.

Doubts cast on efforts to link Saddam, al-Qaida so reads the K-R headline.

While this is not news in and of itself, the story has the usual cloak and barf-bag "unnamed senior U.S. Officials." Isn't there a person in Washington with testicles?

All of the specious sources for the Hussein al-Qaeda are named.

Iraqi defectors.

Cherry-picked intel.

Unproven material being stated as fact.

You know the White House drill by now.

It's very much like the three most important things in real estate, with a twist. Just replace; location, location, location with obfuscation, obfuscation, obfuscation and you win a prize!