The problem the leftward fringes in this country have is their denial of reality and their place in it. They wish it was not so and lash out at anyone who believes we should face our challenges. They have gone to extreme lengths to hide from the evil and the risks this evil represents. One of my favorite examples is the connection between Iraq and 9-11. Liberals will say there is no hard link between Iraq and 9-11 or terrorists. The first part is basically true the last is patently false.

But we did not go into Iraq because there was a clear link to 9-11. We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein represented the most likely nexus of evil intent and weapons technology for future 9-11’s. Let me say that again – future 9-11’s.

This basic distinction is obvious to many, but a liberal will run around wiht hands over ears yelling “la, la, la, I can’t hear you” before acknowledging this reality.

So now we have more and more information coming out of Iraq about Saddam’s wealth of connections to terrorist (so many seemed to find sanctuary there somehow?) and Al Quaeda. And the “la, la’s” are also rising in volume as the left fails to admit its mistaken positions on terrorism and Hussein. They should have know better when all their arguments boiled down to “I would trust Hussein to act responsibly before I would trust Bush to know what he is doing”.

So the news is coming out and the MSM is running from it. But it will come out. And those who run from it will cement their reputations as unworthy to participate in the needed debate about our security.

From the WSJ todaywe have the focused denila [and another hat tip to RealClearPolitics)

But in the debates over Iraq, that part of the communication has become far too muddied. Documents found in Iraq are doubted; confessions by detainees are received as universally suspect; reports of meetings between officials of the former Iraqi regime and al Qaeda operatives are discounted as having been nothing more than empty formalities, with such characters shuttling between places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, perhaps to share tea and cookies. Any conclusions or even inferences about contacts between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda are subjected these days to the kind of metaphysical test in which existence itself becomes a highly dubious philosophical problem, mired in the difficulty of ever really being certain about anything at all.

Which hides from the harsh reality

Actually, there were many connections, as Stephen Hayes, writing in the current issue of the Weekly Standard, spells out under the headline “The Mother of All Connections.” Since the fall of Saddam, the U.S. has had extraordinary access to documents of the former Baathist regime, and is still sifting through millions of them. Mr. Hayes takes some of what is already available, combined with other reports, documentation and details, some from before the overthrow of Saddam, some after. For page after page, he lists connections–with names, dates and details such as the longstanding relationship between Osama bin Laden’s top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Saddam’s regime.

Mr. Hayes raises, with good reason, the question of why Saddam gave haven to Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the men who in 1993 helped make the bomb that ripped through the parking garage of the World Trade Center. He details a contact between Iraqi intelligence and several of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia, the year before al Qaeda destroyed the twin towers. He recounts the intersection of Iraqi and al Qaeda business interests in Sudan, via, among other things, an Oil for Food contract negotiated by Saddam’s regime with the al-Shifa facility that President Clinton targeted for a missile attack following the African embassy bombings because of its apparent connection to al Qaeda. And there is plenty more.

Yes, there is plenty more. Here is Stephen Hayes’ article in the Weekly Standard which we posted on previously here.

And the American people do not know about this because the liberals in the media, who wish things were different, have become so obsessed they are filtering this news out. They are trying to bring America into their little fantasy world.

I think it is time we had a media that will face reality, stop picking sides and deal with these issues straight up. Time to get a new MSM.