You just can't trust these terrorists

I'm getting tired of Reagan posts (but seriously, you have to check this out), and so many other bloggers are all over this growing torture memo story. But The New York Times today ran what I think is the definitive story on how gullible and stupid this administration is.

Muammar Qaddafi is a terrorist from the old school. Before bin Laden even became disillusioned, Qaddafi was bombing innocent people. He suddenly had this very conspicuous change of heart last year, and started renouncing terrorism, and giving up his country's WMD. I wonder if that had anyting to do with the eventual lifting of UN sanctions against Libya. Qaddafi must have known that all you have to do to get the US government on your side is tell them what they want to hear. You can still BE a terrorist, mind you. Just tell us you aren't.

Because today it was revealed that Libya has been plotting to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia. I know, it's The New York Times, but Judith Miller didn't write this one. Here:

While the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was renouncing terrorism and negotiating the lifting of sanctions last year, his intelligence chiefs ordered a covert operation to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia and destabilize the oil-rich kingdom, according to statements by two participants in the conspiracy.

Those participants, Abdurahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader now in jail in Alexandria, Va., and Col. Mohamed Ismael, a Libyan intelligence officer in Saudi custody, have given separate statements to American and Saudi officials outlining the plot.

That's two separate sources, which is rare for the Times, I know. But it makes it somewhat credible. Amazingly, despite the fact that Qaddafi is "with us" and not with the terrorists, he's still plotting acts of terrorism! This is actually a case between two brutal dictatorships that, for various reasons, are now on our side. Ou friends the Saudis always trump other allies, however, so look for some major distancing from the "Libyan miracle" soon. In fact, I'm waiting for the press conference where Bush claims not to have known who Qaddafi or where Libya is.

Actually, I'd believe he doesn't know where Libya is.