Resentful??
It's just a little exasperation with the pattern of playing games with semantics.
Words are important indeed. But sometimes he stretches common sense.
The Pentagon has clandestine capabilities using small teams. What term do they use to describe a secret "operation." What's the official word for an operation if less than division is involved.
Here are examples of explicit used of the word "operation" by the Pentagon not involving a division of troops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ARK20050925&articleId=1001
No one I know of is aware of any proven link between Saddam and an Al Queda "effort" against the United States. I am sure Saddam would have had his own attempts to get links with Al Queda and Islamists -- to infiltrate them and keep tabs on them.