Are we really sure about the connection to Iraq... I mean, no offense, but Saddam doesn't seem the type to share his power with religious extremists like Osama because he is power hungry.... sure, other countries that already have religious leadership seems like a done deal, but Saddam already has had many flexes of muscle against Iraq's religious leaders... maybe they both hated America, but I don't think Saddam had a personality that would have sided with Osama... he's far too suspicious if you ask me.
"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.
"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.
The editor of the Los Angeles Times labeled as "myth" the claim that links between Iraq and al Qaeda had been proved. A recent dispatch from Reuters simply asserted, "There is no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda." 60 Minutes anchor Lesley Stahl was equally certain: "There was no connection."
And on it goes. This conventional wisdom--that our two most determined enemies were not in league, now or ever--is comforting. It is also wrong.
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