The Pentagon has been instructed not to release this report, and the report is not available online.

That’s strange. I downloaded the report several days ago from here [clicking on the link downloads a 94 page .pdf file, 11.7 MB in size. Perhaps an update is in order.

It’s an interesting report. The news reports don’t do it justice. It reveals the true extent of the ties to terrorist organizations, the extent of their training of terrorists, the extent of their acts of terrorism both inside Iraq and in other countries. I think everyone should download it and learn how dangerous Saddam’s Iraq was, not only to Iraqis within the borders but to other nations as well. There may have been found no operational ties to 9/11 but there are definite and multiple ties between Saddam’s Iraq and terrorism and terrorists.

Then again, news of such revelations may not be so very well received around here, now that I think about it. It might take some of the sheen off the “Saddam was no threat” chorus line number on the left.

Our bribery system doesn’t usually work like this. Generally, a congresspers on gets a bribe from a certain industry, and he/she is instructed to vote accordingly. And that’s all.

Getting bribed isn’t supposed to require months and months of pleading and threatening and foaming at the mouth every time a TV camera appears.

Hmmmm. You’re right. That probably means it’s nothing to do with bribery. More to do with not wanting other corporations to fear cooperating with the government’s anti-terrorism efforts, which, face it, who’s going to open themselves up to lawsuits in the billions of dollars, even to help the government prevent further catastrophic terrorist attacks if there’s no immunity?

Why should a few VIPs have a law that specifically prevents them from ever being sued?

Why, indeed. Of course nothing of the sort is being contemplated. It doesn’t immunize the companies from any law suits for any reason for all time. It immunizes them from law suits for actions taken in reliance upon legal opinions by the government in cooperation with anti-terrorism efforts in the wake of 9/11. Period. Agree or disagree but, again, flights of fancy like this are inextricably tied to your credibility. Don’t lie to your reader and your reader won’t discover you’ve lied to them and they won’t have any reason not to trust the next thing to come off your keyboard.