Lying for Fun & Profit

Rep. Robin Hayes:

via Brilliant At Breakfast via Americablog

A Republican congressman from North Carolina told CNN on Wednesday that the "evidence is clear" that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

"Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11," Rep. Robin Hayes said.

Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places."

Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not.

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said that Saddam was a dangerous man, but when asked about Hayes' statement, would not link the deposed Iraqi ruler to the terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania.

"I haven't seen compelling evidence of that," McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN.

Words fail me. Congressman Hayes - and every other stooge peddling the lie that Saddam is responsible for September 11th - deserve an extended evening of tarring & feathering, but I'll (have to) settle for heaping naked contempt and scorn on them for the duration of their sorry careers.

Jill at Brilliant At Breakfast expressed some disappointment in McCain's "tepid" response, but the old [ostensible] straight shooter never recovered his 'nads after the Bush Smear Machine castrated him back in 2000. He's just another Republican tool who would sell the shards of his soul for another fucking gimmee to the telecom and banking industries. In fact, he already did. Moderate? There's nothing moderate about anyone remaining in a Republican Party so enthralled with theofascism.