If at first you don't succeed...

In response to Al Gore's powerful indictment of the Bush administration's failures in Iraq, the Republican National Committee shot back:

While Gore was vice president, terrorists attacked U.S. embassies in Africa and bombed the USS Cole and the World Trade Center. "Al Gore's attacks on the president today demonstrate that he either does not understand the threat of global terror or he has amnesia," RNC spokesman Jim Dyke said in a statement.

Sure -- and while Gore was vice president, Monica Lewinsky performed oral sex on Bill Clinton. But oral sex didn't have a damn thing to do with Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies or the USS Cole didn't have anything to do with Iraq either.

It appears that the GOP will never stop trying to tangle Al-Qa'ida and Iraq in the minds of Americans.