Michael Hussey supplants Feith as stupidest guy on the face of the earth

My active lurking at "Pushing Rope" has finally spawned something worth reporting.

Michael Hussey, who provides most of the content at "Pushing Rope" that might aspire to seriousness, created an entry titled "Revisionist History" after receiving two comments to an earlier entry titled "Quote(s) of the Day."

In the latter entry, Hussey singled out a recent comment by President Bush.

"Nobody’s ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq."

George W. Bush.

In the same press briefing, Bush finally admits Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?

BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?

QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center.

BUSH: Nothing. Except it’s part of — and nobody has suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack.

Apparently, Bush doesn't read Instapund[i]t, Little Green Footballs or listen to his own Vice-President.

The moral is that the White House never believed their own deception.
(Quote(s) of the Day)

That post received two replies, one by "Sunshine Editor" referred to a post at "The State of Sunshine" which provided a summary of the rationale for invading Iraq--a fair summary, so far as I can tell.
The second reply was posted by me, asking Michael to support his assertions respecting Instapundit and Little Green Footballs, based on my failure to find material matching what Hussey claimed.

So how does Hussey respond? By changing the subject, of course.
Hussey proceeds to ignore what we wrote in favor of this:

For conservatives who are now playing revisionist history in the comments of my Quote(s) of the Day post.

"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting. As evidence, he cited Iraqi intelligence officers' meeting with bin Laden in Sudan. "There's numerous contacts between the two," Bush said.

I wouldn't be surprised if this meeting took place. The problem is no one can confirm it. The Sudan meeting story came from intelligence from the Office of Special Plans. Former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith ran that group in the Pentagon. In a rare move, the Department of Defense shot down Feith's statements to Senate. Tommy Franks called him, "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Who knows if the meeting took place. Bush st[o]od by all this bogus intelliigence.

The Bush administration has said the terrorist network and Iraq were linked.

In response, a senior administration official traveling with President Bush in Tampa, Florida, said, "We stand by what Powell and Tenet have said," referring to previous statements by Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet that described such links.

The White House played on the public's fear of 9-11 to invade all for the benefit of pro-Israel neoconservatives. The Iraq war hasn't made America or Israel safer.

The White House also presented bogus intellignce that Iraq was training al-Qaeda to use WMDs. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was tagged as a known liar by the intelligence community. The White House passed his BS as fact. al-Libi was saying these things because he was tortured.

Al-Libi's capture, some sources say, was an early turning point in the government's internal debates over interrogation methods. FBI officials brought their plea to retain control over al-Libi's interrogation up to FBI Director Robert Mueller. The CIA station chief in Afghanistan, meanwhile, appealed to the agency's hawkish counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black. He in turn called CIA Director George Tenet, who went to the White House. Al-Libi was handed over to the CIA. "They duct-taped his mouth, cinched him up and sent him to Cairo" for more-fearsome Egyptian interrogations, says the ex-FBI official. "At the airport the CIA case officer goes up to him and says, 'You're going to Cairo, you know. Before you get there I'm going to find your mother and I'm going to f--- her.' So we lost that fight." (A CIA official said he had no comment.)

Apple sauce.
("Revisionist History")

Now, Hussey takes the title from Feith merely for posting an ostensible reply that fails to address any of the issues on which he was challenged. When we delve into the content of what he wrote, however, it just makes Hussey look even more inept.

Not only does he fail to address the issues, he also makes the title pass for a description of his reply rather than as the intended rebuke of those who dared respond to his earlier post.

Watch for the updates.