Exhaustive review sponsored by the Pentagon finds NO link between Saddam, al Qaida

Oh, but I think your post did underscore the intention of somehow vindicating the very misleading propaganda campaign in which the administration engaged in before the war.

After all, all of this Monday-morning quarterbacking is about ascertaining whether or not the U.S. was justified in invading vis a vis how much of a threat did Hussein pose.

Unless I'm missing something, are there other classified documents that we're not aware of? And to the contrary, I can't see how anybody could see there would be some large body of information which would reveal that Hussein had this vast network of connections to terrorist cells. I mean, realistically what's left to look at which might be ground-breaking?

I'm pretty sure that any information which would remotely vindicate the case the administration was making before the war would have been released already. Last, just about every government agency/study into the matter has come to the same conclusion: there were little, if any--and very tenous links between radical terrorist organizations and Hussein.

Personally, I'm well beyond trying to defend the pre-War buildup by the Bush Admin. History will resolve whatever distortions that the Bush Admin presented to the American people.

Regarding the body of information yet to be translated or released from the Saddam Administration. My understanding is that one of the great shortcomings of our current intelligence agencies is the lack of Arabic translators; both for the spoken word and the written word. My understanding is that we've barely scratched the surface of releasing translations of the documents that we've captured. Either because they've yet to be translated, or because of their intelligence categorization. I wouldn't be surprised if only 1% of the documents have been released.