Now I am beginning to wonder. Are I. Lewis 'Scooter" Libby and Ibn Al-Shaikh al-Libi related? Are they brothers? I don't want to speculate about whether al-Libi's father had several wives, and whether one of them was Scooter's mother. But the coincidences seem all too real. In America, we have I. "Lying" Libby making up stuff about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda and peddling those lies to stampede Congress and the public into supporting the Bush administration's war. And over in the Middle East, our forces conveniently capture a man named "Libi," who is then shipped from Afghanistan to Egypt, tortured, and then comes up with the very same lies that "Libby" was pushing. It was "Libi's" lies, produced under torture, that gave "Libby" the ability to claim that Iraq was training Al Qaeda in chemical and biological weapons. That charge, of course, was a cornerstone of the terrorism-WMD nexus that gave nervous liberal hawks a reason to support Bush's illegal war. (Now I wonder if the infamous "Louie the Lip" is part of this family, too.) Congressional investigators, take note.

Maybe there is a new term emerging for liberals who supported the war in Iraq: Libbys.