Man, this is getting old. It now is beginning to appear as if the alleged bomb plot against multiple airliners that was supposedly being hatched in Britain and represented such a dire threat that we had to divert our attention away from irritating little episodes like the Lamont victory in Connecticut, the Lieberman integrity meltdown, diving poll numbers for Junior Bush, meltdowns by key Republican candidates and other assorted bits of information and random happenings that don’t reflect well on Dear Leader, might actually have been much ado about nothing. It might not have been much more threatening that the bunch of nutcases in a warehouse in Florida who were supposedly the last “great threat to American Security”.

And yes, that last link goes to Andrew Sullivan, conservative Bush lapdog lo these many years who is beginning, however dimly and incompletely, to finally see the light. This isn’t wild speculation on some extreme liberal blog, it is one of Bush’s early and vociferous supporters saying that. It’s why I think it is important to note and why I’m going to excerpt some of the post below, read the whole thing though because it is amazing considering the source.

I’d be interested in the number of plotters who had passports. How could they even stage a dummy-run with no passports? And what bomb-making materials did they actually have? These seem like legitimate questions to me; the British authorities have produced no evidence so far. If the only evidence they have was from torturing someone in Pakistan, then they have nothing that can stand up in anything like a court. I wonder if this story is going to get more interesting. I wonder if Lieberman’s defeat, the resilience of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the emergence of a Hezbollah-style government in Iraq had any bearing on the decision by Bush and Blair to pre-empt the British police and order this alleged plot disabled. I wish I didn’t find these questions popping into my head. But the alternative is to trust the Bush administration.

Been there. Done that. Learned my lesson.

Damn Andrew, and only a few years late in your epiphany…