If I had the time tonight - I would photoshop the cover of Home Alone, replacing Macaulay Culkin's face with Bush's. But, the night has gotten away from me - not to mention Culkin's little hands would be a nightmare to work around... anyways. Yesterday afternoon something was made public that... in my imagination, might have caused Bush to slap his face with both hands and scream out:

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter. Con't reading...

Now - not only is this information important because it tears out the foundation of "failed intelligence", and doesn't fit well with the many times the administration claimed connection between Iraq and al Qaeda as an undisputed fact. But most importantly is the fact that Bush has done everything in his power, and probably even past that, to keep the daily-briefing info from the light of day... he has not allowed the Senate to see it... no one. Which kind of shoots down the argument that Bush keeps claiming: 'Everyone saw the same intellegence I saw'.

So lets recap - first, about a half a year ago, a stack of meeting minutes from a get-together with Tony Blair and Bush were leaked and became known as the "Downing Street Memos", which were comfermed by the British government - stating that Bush was, quote, "fixing" the intellegence around Iraq. Now, information comes out that Bush was told 10 days after 9/11 what he claimed to only find out a year after our "mission accomplished".

What a piece of shit.


By the way - in case it's been 15 years since you seen 'Home Alone', the title of this post: "This is it! Don't get scared now!", is a quote from the part when Culkin is loading the b.b. gun when the robbers are coming in. Just thought I'd clarify.