And yet they argue

A spokesman for Mr Berlusconi said the prime minister had been telephoned recently by Col Gaddafi of Libya, who said: “I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid

Not that this will stop Jean-Francois Kerry or numerous other Democratic cretins from insisting that the two events are unrelated. Then again, most Democrats still believe in the tooth fairy, the labor theory of value and wealth through taxation, so I see no reason why they should start being bound by objective reality now.