The hilarity of Bush’s fiercest critics now dusting off his arguments to justify another pointless war in the Middle East just never stops. The NYTimes site fell over the other day, most likely due to its own incompetence, but they are blaming Syria. No kidding. They are blaming a country without toilets

In an interview, Mr. Frons said the attack was carried out by a group known as “the Syrian Electronic Army, or someone trying very hard to be them.” The group attacked the company’s domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The Web site first went down after 3 p.m.; once service was restored, the hackers quickly disrupted the site again. Shortly after 6 p.m., Mr. Frons said that “we believe that we are on the road to fixing the problem.”

The Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers who support President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Matt Johansen, head of the Threat Research Center at White Hat Security, posted on Twitter that he was directed to a Syrian Web domain when he tried to view The Times’s Web site.

I’m so tired of hearing about sites being hacked. The reason they get hacked is incompetence. A properly designed and managed site like a news site should never get hacked. In most cases, they site is not even hacked. The hosting service is what goes down and that’s seldom a real hack. Usually it is either a stupid IT dork leaving a door open or an old fashioned hardware failure. Hackers who know their stuff are not wasting their time with a collection of tools like the American media.

Anyway, it is hilarious that the Left is now embracing its inner chicken hawk.

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