Politics: OBL + SH = SOL

President Bush has set a news conference for tonight, though the White House says there won't be any announcement of war starting. However, the BBC is reporting that rumors are circling Washington that Osama bin Ladin has been captured. White House officials also deny that there is any truth to this statement. However, the timing of the event tonight and the leaks this morning from interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that OBL is alive and near the Afghan-Pakistan border do point to an interesting possibility: One way to blunt opposition to war (now grown to such a magnitude that three of the five UN Security Council veto-holders are opposed) would be to definitively connect OBL to Iraq. I have trouble believing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is singing about everything after only a short period of brutal torture and interrogation. There is a better chance that the impression is being created that he is talking so that Bush can effectively say tonight that OBL and Saddam Hussein are working together. Watch for this and other zany conspiratorial outcomes tonight at 8 pm Eastern.