Three months after I wrote that the prevailing American assumptions about Saddam Hussein may be wrong, and that he may have been setting up an elaborate ruse, Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times presents an argument that is strikingly similar to my own. Too bad it takes three months, a few billion dollars and thousands of dead before the topic can even be broached in the national press.

Also today:

Report Cast Doubt on Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection in the Washington Post