To hear some Democrats tell it, the United States must have been occupying Baghdad before the terrorist attacks in New York City and Arlington on Sept. 11, 2001, against the U.S.S. Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, on U.S. embassies in Africa on Aug. 7, 1998, at a Saudi Arabian military complex on June 25, 1996 … .

The list goes on, and so does the opportunistic yakety-yak of all those Democrats saying the war in Iraq instigated the ambitions of recently arrested British terrorists who surely would have been sleepily peaceful if only the United States had left Saddam Hussein in power.