Giving Brendans everywhere a bad name, OpinionJournal.com’s Brendan Miniter takes us to the land of conservative postmodernism:

cite=”http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110007045″>

One trap Ms. [Maxine] Waters, Mr. Kerry and quite a few Democrats fell into was
the
idea that the war in Iraq was somehow separate from the war on
terror. The
American people never really believed that, as polls showed in the
run up to
the war that many believed Saddam Hussein had something to do with
the
Sept. 11 attacks. President Bush never made that direct of a
connection.
Instead the reason for the war in Iraq has long been to transform the
politics in the Middle East in our favor.

This passage is a logical and factual disaster. Not only does Miniter fail to point out that there is no credible evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks, but he uses this misperception to support his claim that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror. And of course, he glosses over the way the Bush administration implicitly linked Sept. 11 to the war in Iraq and used weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for war (see ATPS for the evidence on both points). I think someone may have exited the reality-based community…