Looks like they captured Saddam - alive

From here, Saddam Hussein has been captured.
To which my typically paranoid mind has only three questions:
1. How long have they really had him? (Good thing that Iraqi War Crimes court got set up just in time, huh?)
2. When will the first letter to the editor show up from a dittohead, claiming that this proves all those America-hating liberals were wrong to oppose the war, since this proves they were all wrong, and we did capture Saddam, since that was what the war was all about to begin with.
3. Will it be a very quick trial ending with his sudden death by firing squad, or will the trial be drawn out, with major developments released immediately after each news item the Pentagon wants to distract us from, with the final verdict being released just prior to the election in order to get maximum boost for Bush's plummeting approval ratings?

Another reason to like Howard Dean

Secret organizations are out to get him!

No, seriously, there's an organization called "Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values", whose membership and source of funds is kept secret. But they've been airing attack ads against Howard Dean in Iowa. One shows a picture of Osama bin Laden, and claims that Dean can't lead the country while he's out there because he has no military experience.

As suspicious as I am of Bush and the three separate PR organizations he's hired to promote his image (at taxpayer expense, I might add), this smells more of Clark, with its focus on Dean's lack of military career.

But it may come from the combined Kerry/Gephardt campaigns (the ever-changing president of the organization has been from each of them).

But, of course, nobody knows because under the law, sponsors of political ads don't have to reveal their identity until February of the year the election is in. So, as long as they pull these ads before then, we'll never know who ran them, or who's paying them to do so.

Anyway, you can see Dean's response here, which includes a link so you can see the ad itself, and the Washington Post editorial about the ads here.