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4. Why isn't she detailing why the Bush administration was particularly concerned about Iraq AND AQ.

Why didn't they do that before Operation Iraqi Freedom?

Why do they never show the Iraq link, ever?

They did talk frequently about how Iraq harbors terrorists.

This is a war on terror, not just Iraq.

Powell cited Iraq-alQaeda links in his speech to the UN. Bush cited such as well. Cheney pointed out the Feith memo cited in The Weekly Standard as being the most accurate reporting to date and it certainly detailed connections between Iraq and al Qaeda. It just doesn't get much airtime when the press is busily misquoting everyone, or even making up things altogether to distract from it. occasionally they slip up, though, and get caught.

Some trivia that was nestled up amid some other misinformation from Robert Fisk of all people:

1993 : (SUDAN : BIN LADEN & HIS IRAQI ENGINEER SAAD WORK ON PORT SUDAN ROAD) Along with his Iraqi engineer, Mohamed Saad - who is now building the Port Sudan road - Mr Bin Laden blasted massive tunnels into the Zazi mountains of Bakhtiar province for guerrilla hospitals and arms dumps, then cut a mujahedin trail across the country to within 15 miles of Kabul. - by Robert Fisk, "Anti-Soviet warrior on the road to peace [Fisk interviews bin Laden (1993)],"The Independent via andrew sullivan, December 16, 1993

Bin Alden spent little time opposing the Soviets- he took a lot of money from Arab aid organizations in the name of fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan but instead put all of his efforts into fighting the Indians in Kashmir; bin Laden claime dto have build massive tunnels and so on using funding gullible people sent but when we arrived they were little more than hand dug narrow holes made by people looking for semiprecious stones; bin Laden took credit for building hospitals but they certainly didn't find too many- if any- in Afghanistan which had benefitted from his wealth and all the donations. He used the charity for building his global terrorist network instead- right under the UN's nose.