If you've got quotations to that effect I'd love to see them, but I don't recall them stating it positively and definitively as you do.
Cheney fairly recently has mentioned the Atta-Prague meeting as a possible connection. The lack of a definitive documented link to the 9/11 event does not preclude the longtime cooperation between Iraq and al Qaeda documented by the CIA memo and numerous news reports. Do you have any reaction to that?
If they were standing military allies in terrorism, that puts Saddam right in the crosshairs by itself.
I think what they said was there was no hard evidence at the time
To immediately jump to spin control in the next paragraph is not conducive to making me believe you are really interested in this story.