Some posters want a New York Times-style flowchart showing the shadowy links between Burkett, CBS, Jim Moore, Michael Moore, and the DNC.

Well, I'm not capable of putting such a chart together, but someone posted one on Free Republic.

Thanks to PrestoPundit.

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This seems like an important article, but I have to warn you, it's so complicated as to be inpenetrable.

LUGANO, Switzerland — Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program to help fund Al Qaeda?

Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam's overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of Oil-for-Food dollars began pouring into Saddam's coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his infamous war on the U.S.

Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort.

Next to that door, a festive sign spells out in gold letters under a green flag that this is the office of MIGA, the Malaysian Swiss Gulf and African Chamber. Registered here 20 years ago as a society to promote business between the Gulf States and Asia, Europe and Africa, MIGA is a company that the United Nations and the U.S. government says has served as a hub of Al Qaeda finance: A terrorist chamber of commerce.

In a recent interview, U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary Juan Zarate described MIGA as "a very good example of an investment company that is used as a shell to hide and move money."

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MIGA had other founders as well. One of them, who does not appear on the U.N. terror list, is an Arab businessman now in his early 60s, Abdul Rahman Hayel Saeed.

Described by an acquaintance as urbane, polite and fluent in English, Hayel Saeed was born into one of Yemen's most prominent business clans, owners of a family-held global conglomerate based in the Yemeni capital of Taiz and named for its founding patriarch: the Hayel Saeed Anam Group of Companies, or HSA.

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HSA is unquestionably a company involved in legitimate business. But given the involvement of Abdul Rahman Hayel Saeed, it is striking that between 1996 and 2003, while the United Nations ran its Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq, the HSA Group — via U.N.-approved Oil-for-Food contracts — sold at least $400 million worth of goods to Saddam.

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One of the big questions is whether any of the money skimmed from Oil-for-Food also slopped into terrorist-financing ventures such as MIGA.

This is another one of those cases of "shadowy links" that the New York Times shows absolutely no interest in exploring.

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Whenever I'm tipped these guys have a new ad out, I hear in my head the Emperor's Theme from The Empire Strikes Back. I can just see John O'Neill walking off the shuttlecraft, flanked by two red-caped Imperial Bodyguards.

Another whithering attack.

Thanks to Instapundit.

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John Kerry calls Bob Dole. Bob Dole tells Kerry off. Bob Dole absolutely pins back Kerry's ears with an attack on Kerry's use of surrogates to call Bush a deserter.

Content Warning: Some R-rated potty mouth in the following Top Ten. Probably nothing to get too panicked about; I mean, it's Bob Dole we're talking about.

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Q: "Do you have any pets that have made an impact on you personally?"

John Kerry: "When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC.... One day as our swiftboat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat. After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA. Several minutes of frantic search followed after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog. It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol."

Allah scooped the media with this photo of VC the Flyin' Wonderdog in action.

But there's more, of course. Because VC the Flyin' Wonderdog wasn't John Kerry's only Vietnam Super-Pet.

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The New York Times desperately tries to pack the toothpaste back into the tube, but the truth is now out and it's not going away.

L to R: John Forbes Kerry, "Bigfoot." No reliable reports ever place either in Cambodia.

I hate to get ahead of myself, but as Leonardo DiCaprio said in Titanic just before the final rise and fall of the breaking ship: "This is it!"

Update-- Know Your Shaggy-Haired Apocryphal Creatures!

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Mike's Message

Hi, gang. Michael Moore here. I had an interesting encounter in a diner and I thought I'd share it.

So me and Joe Palooka are sitting around at Mavis's diner talking.

Joe looks at me. His eyes are wet with anger.

I push a large joint of mutton down my enormous feeding orifice. The bones crack and pop like July fireworks as my massive tusks rend the meat and work the bone into a thick paste.

"How could they do this?!?" Joe wants to know. His hands tremble, as if palsied. "How could these rotten bastards push Saddam Hussein out of office?!"

It's a good question, no doubt. I wish I could answer it. I wish I could answer another question-- How can I eat this cheesesteak, this Monte Cristo, and that four-gallon tank of pork lard simultaneously, when I have only two hands?

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Updated: Turns out that Captain Ed's scoop was already reported by the MSM (or at least the Conservitive News Service Network, which may or may not count), and no attribution to Captain Ed was provided.

The media was willing to credit Free Republic, Powerline, LGF, and Allah for the early scoops regarding the technical crudity of the forgeries, but now they just seem embarassed, and are reporting "news" without attribution that was actually first disclosed on blogs.

Drudge's screaming headline about Burkett comparing Bush to Hitler was of course first reported by the blogger Fried Man back in February, and re-reported and more widely disseminated in my own piece on Burkett's credibility.

Captain Ed made the jaw-dropping discovery that Burkett claimed to have "reassembled" Bush's files; but this article re-reporting that doesn't mention Captain Ed at all.

With all due respect, MSM: It's a simple rule. If you are re-reporting news discovered by someone else, whether paid or amateur, you credit the original reportage.

Update: Johnny Walker Red tells me that Drudge had the OnLine Journal screed mentioning "reassembling files" the day before Captain Ed did.

Well, okay, but as Johnny concedes, Drudge seems to have missed the significance of the article; he didn't highlight the reassembling language.

And, even if Drudge had it before Captain Ed-- then Drudge should get credit. He's a blogger, of sorts, too.

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ABCNews now has the story up; Staudt denies "the heart of" or "essential truth" of Dan Rather's increasingly rubbished story.

Thanks to Liz for the tip.

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10 of 16 swing states added jobs last month.

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