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

The thing that gets me is why would the pentagon throw the line out there in the first place. They must have intially put the premise out publically for a reason before they withdrew it. Maybe they wanted to see the public response to the topic, I don't know. I mean this is a report that they created, if its political I don't get why they would go through the motion of putting something politically damaging out in the first place.