MattM,
Don’t you see, it doesn’t matter what the Senate Intelligence report said about Saddam and bin Laden being enemies. That is too definitive of a source, and makes too much sense (a secular dictator trying to keep his Shiite majority in check isn’t going to “team up” with Islamist rogue terrorist). We should instead listen to Cheney’s handpicked biographer and known prevaricator Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, the only idiot in the world who still believes what he writes.
There is an interesting phenomenon in conservative circles, where the true believers hold on to their one glimmer of faith in Bush’s divine mission. For them, as long as one guy, Hayes, keeps writing about the link, or as long as one nutjob like Santorum keeps saying we found WMD’s, or one obscure blogger on the ever-stumbling Pajamasmedia keeps saying the Iraq war made us safer, they’ll believe it. John Dean’s latest book gives interesting insight into this sort of collective submissive brainwashing.