Has the right and the Conservative blogosphere been suckered?

Don Surber asks some interesting questions today. They are in reference to a Stephen Hayes Weekly Standard piece. Mr. Hayes wrote-

THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.

Don wrote-

Uh guys, there is just one problem: Has anyone seen these documents? I hate to spoil the wet dream, but bloggers are doing the very thing they bitch about MSM doing (I work for an afternoon newspaper, so I'm not really mainstream, more like Up The Creek Media.)

I mean, Dan Rather never saw the original memo. And last week everyone was bitching because MSM failed to verify that the Sago miners were alive (even though Gov. Joe Manchin had confirmed it.)

So how do we know these "exploitable items" exist and prove anything?

Stephen Hayes was asked last night on Hannity&Colmes if he saw the documents. Hayes didn't answer Colmes question.

That makes me question this whole story till someone comes out and says they have seen them. Michelle Malkin posted about this last Saturday and 37 people trackbacked to her post.(I didn't post on the subject) Has the conservative blogosphere done a Dan Rather and fallen for something we wanted to be true?

I tried calling the Weekly Standard. Mr Hayes and his boss William Kristol are out of the office. I left voice mail messages. Lets see what happens. Stay tuned.

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