The Iraq and Al-Qaeda connection

This is a long one so I will just post the first paragraph and link. Well worth the read if you need convincing; I don't.

From Dan Darling

Stephen F. Hayes on the Iraqi/al-Qaeda connection

Via the Weekly Standard. I'll definitely be buying his book, though I wonder if it'll be important enough to rate a "60 Minutes" spot?


"THE PRESIDENT CONVINCED THE COUNTRY with a mixture of documents that turned out to be forged and blatantly false assertions that Saddam was in league with al Qaeda," claimed former Vice President Al Gore last Wednesday.

This coming from one of the men who authorized the attack on al-Shifa ...

"There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever," declared Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism official under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, in an interview on March 21, 2004.

This coming from one of the primary architects of the attack on al-Shifa.

I've said this before and I'll probably say it again, but one cannot consistently defend the attack on al-Shifa while seeking to "debunk" the Iraq/al-Qaeda connection. ...