Hey trembling Americans who have allowed themselves to be pummeled into fearful submission by our government's vague terror alerts and arbitrary mentions of 9/11 (this means you, GIULIANI), have we got some news for you. Recently, Al-Qaeda terrorists endorsed their pick for president via some terrorist Web site (they have those?), and you might be surprised by their choice:

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Today is the Iraq War's fifth birthday. While more realistic people might take this time to reflect upon five years that have been marked by death, disappointment, and the most insidious of lies, the Bush Administration continues to try to make this disaster of a war look like something that's actually working.

Said Bush to an invite-only audience at the Pentagon today, “By defeating al Qaeda in Iraq, we will show the world that al Qaeda is the weak horse… On this anniversary, the American people should know, that since the beginning of the surge, violence is down." Funny Bush would bring up al Qaeda right now, after what we always knew has been unequivocally proven — there was no link between Saddam Hussein and the big A.Q. There's an important lesson to be learned from the Bush administration's endless train of disillusionment — and this is directed at the "I won't vote for Barack if Hillary loses/I won't vote for Hillary if Barack loses/fuck them all, I'm voting for Nader" camps — this will only continue if we allow another GOP warmonger to take the White House. Just sayin'.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? Well, I've been blown away by a lot of things since I became a blogger, but this really goes above and beyond. The Pentagon has just released a study called “Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents” that concludes there was NO LINK BETWEEN AL QAEDA AND SADDAM HUSSEIN. Conveniently, there will be no press briefings on the study, which we should think of as a special anniversary present from our government to the war. The two will have been intimately involved for 5 years on March 19th. Wish the lovers well! [NYT]

H/T JJP

In a special "SUMMER TERROR EXCLUSIVE," ABC News was kind enough to tell us that an anonymous senior official in "law enforcement" has gotten word that Al Qaeda could be planning a terror "spectacular" this summer.

U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point."

As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft."

Besides the fact that "Summer Terror Exclusive" sounds like a phrase (minus a key word) commonly used to describe tell-all interviews on the cover of tabloid mags, and a "spectacular" calls to mind something far more fun and whimsical than the anonymous source would probably have liked, I thank ABC News. We've officially been needlessly scared warned!

[ABC]