Saddam's Capture Was A Conspiracy!

Or so goes the inane ranting of Baghdad Jim McDermott D-Washington.

Now I know that I'm not a political spinmeister the likes of Karl Rove or Dick Morris or James Carville, but it just seems to me that if you were going to stage the capture of Saddam that you would probably want to do it a little closer to the general election. It's not like Bush is in a fight for the party nomination. It's not like the Saddam bump is going to bask for 11 months.

If we were 6 months from the election, I might buy (a little) the suspicous timing argument. But we're not, and I don't.

Why can't these "I Hate Bush"™ crowd just simply admit that our military and intelligence community had a major score this weekend? Why can't they accept that it was hard work and perseverence that brought Saddam to his "I look like Fidel on a bender" mugshot glory? Is their hatred of Bush so great that they cannot find it in their hearts to feel good about the job the guys in the field did?

The timing here was not suspicuous. But the politicizing of the timing is despicable.