Here?s a story from an online news service that you may not have seen:

(CNSNews.com) – Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein’s regime to work with some of the world’s most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam’s government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.

One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al Qaeda.

Read the whole thing, as they say. I have no idea whether this reporter will turn out to have acquired genuine documents. But he does foresee an obvious question that any thinking person would ask. That is, why are these docs only showing up now?

The senior government official and source of the Iraqi intelligence memos, explained that the reason the documents have not been made public before now is that the government has “thousands and thousands of documents waiting to be translated.
“It is unlikely they even know this exists,” the source added.

Now that would be a pretty good argument for Kerry and Edwards to use against Bush-Cheney. Why haven?t we put more resources into translating captured docs and working with Iraqi government officials to do so? Is throwing more tax dollars down mass-transit ratholes in places such as Charlotte and Raleigh really more important?