The president should list the various terrorist groups that have received assistance from Iraq, from Hezbollah to al Qaeda - and he should rehearse the saga of Abu Nidal, including the little-known fact that Nidal created a terrorist sleeper network inside the United States.It seems to me that if any part of the message has been lost or garbled, it is the clear link between Saddam Hussein and why we are, in fact, already at war against terrorism. The President's critics have been allowed to talk about plans to invade Iraq as if it is irrelevant to what we set out to do a year ago. They cynically accuse President Bush of only creating an excuse to do something that the senior Bush mistakenly left undone.
But if the American people are given the chance to see how central a fight against Saddam Hussein is a fight against terrorism worldwide, there will be unwavering support for the upcoming invasion.