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

RebSaint said

Wait for what? DadsDream did get one thing right--in many cases, this story is a bit of non-news. Just about every government study, commission, committee and agency has since debunked the administration's claim that there was significant ties between AQ and Hussein. Face it, either we were lied to by the bunch in the White House, or our intelligence agencies failed at an unprecedented level.

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I think it's a "slam dunk" which it was. And not to parse, but I don't believe anyone in the administration ever claimed "operational" ties, or even "significant" ties between Saddam and AQ. They mentioned ties, some of which were proven true, some of which were the result of faulty intelligence. When DD mentioned Saddam "sealed his fate" because of his unpredictability, that's important because in the post 9-11 world, an unpredictable man who harbors weapons of mass destruction and who has links of any kind with a terror organization, risks a certain end. The belief was Saddam was all three, unpredictable, a harborer of wmd, who had links to terror organizations.