Doug Feith, of course, was one of the head loons who cooked up a bunch of now-discredited crap linking Saddam Hussein to Al-Qaeda to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is the guy Gen. Tommy Franks so memorably called “the f***ing stupidest guy on the face of the earth”.

One of Feith’s alleged links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda involved a company called Vlemmo NV, said to be Dutch. (The “NV” seems to be analogous to our “Inc.” or “LLP.”)

But the Dutch government announced this week that they’d searched high and low and found no evidence whatsoever that any such company had ever existed in the Netherlands. And a bunch of lefty blogs have picked up on the report as further evidence that Feith was full of crap.

Tempting to join in. But I did some poking, and Vlemmo may well have existed after all.

It gets arcane from here, with links to Belgian justice ministry documents and my half-assed attempts to translate Dutch. Full bit over in puduland.