Thank you for those links! Particularly fascinating are the ones from Guardian and (gasp!) Newsweek!
Prairie
I am not surprised by this information at all. If we go back and examine Bush and Blair's comments in the lead up to the war, I think we will find regular references to the
possibility of this connection. That's the best both men could do, they couldn't make a solid case just on this and it wasn't necessary given Saddam's violation of multiple UN resolutions.
I don't believe Bush would have gone to war if not for Saddam's connection to terrorists. If not for that he was only a brutal tyrant who couldn't reach us. I do hope all those who have argued here, whose names I can't recall, see this and finally realize that the singular hatred of the US is powerful enough to trump the divisions among our enemies.