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Originally posted by sgtclub
Untrue. There was far more than that, though how much more and whether it was nefarious enough is still cloudy in my mind.

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I disagree with you on the reasons for the wiggle room. I think they really believe all this and have evidence to back it up, but perhaps not beyond a reasonable doubt, which apparently is what is needed these days.

Have you read anything about what the 9/11 Commission said yesterday? They called bullshit:

• The staff of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks sharply contradicted one of President Bush's central justifications for the Iraq war, reporting on Wednesday that there did not appear to have been a "collaborative relationship" between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The assertion came in staff reports that offer a chilling, richly detailed chronology of the Sept. 11 plot and rewrite much of the history of the attacks.
  
  As for Iraq, the commission's staff said its investigation showed that the government of Mr. Hussein had rebuffed or ignored requests from Qaeda leaders for help in the 1990's, a conclusion that directly contradicts a series of public statements President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made before and after last year's invasion of Iraq in justifying the war.
  
  "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and Al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States," one of the staff reports released on Wednesday said. "Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded." The report said that despite evidence of repeated contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda in the 90's, "they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship."

That's from today's NYT.

We gave money to what is now Al Qaeda, back when it was fighting the Soviet Union. If you're going to say that Iraq's "connections" with Al Qaeda prove anything, you should say worse about us.