Tony Snow Returns: ‘There Has Been No Attempt To Try To Link Saddam To 9/11′

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow returned to the job this morning and hit the ground running. In his first interview with CBS’s Early Show, Snow declared that the White House never tried to link Iraq and September 11.

Snow was asked about former CIA Director George Tenet’s remarks from 60 Minutes:

TENET: We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction, and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

Snow responded, “Wait a minute, Chris. The president has been saying exactly that all along. I don’t know what the headline is.” He insisted “there has been no attempt to try to link Saddam to September 11.”

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Now, I get that Tony Snow tells lies because that's what he's paid to do. He's slime. Hired slime.

Why do people believe the lies? There's still 20-something % of likely voters who 'support' Bush (&Co.) & the 'war on terror'. I hear them & read them sometimes on radio & blogs. There seem to be two kinds: old cranks & Gen X idiots. The old cranks have fixed ideas, unshakable, haven't thought or re-thought anything in years. The GXIs have no ideas. They've been propagandized throughout their lives; their choices in politics are like their choices of consumer goods. It's all marketing.

I don't understand either type. Why be a fool? Why be fooled?