Okay, it's quiz time again. Who said the following?:

President George W. Bush, squirming like a worm on a hook trying to explain why after 90 days we've found no evidence of chemical or biological weapons in Iraq, keeps calling up the past.

"We know Saddam had chemical weapons because he used them on his own people," Bush says quite often with his little-boy smile, as if that explained everything. Of course, what he neglects to mention is that the incident he is referring to occurred in 1988 — 15 years ago. Since then, Iraq has never used chemical or biological weapons on anybody.

Pausing to note the conspicuous absence of the word "nuclear" in the "no evidence" declaration, was it:

A). Howard Dean

B). Reuters

C). Maureen Dowd

D). Molly Ivins

E). Another of the kooks on the "paleoconservative" right

If you answered "E," you're catching on. The article even cites approvingly, as evidence against Bush, a "well documented article" from--get ready for this--an Australian publication called Green Left Weekly. That article goes on to mostly rehash another article from the meticulously well-documented New York Times.

As Discoshaman so excellently pointed out recently, the paleo movement has suddenly woken up a little drunk in bed naked with Noam Chomsky. The fact that this movement is even reading the Green Left Weekly to try to find stuff on George W. Bush shows that it does not have nearly so much to do with "conservatism" as it does with hating the president.