[r9etb]

Everyone knows there is no link between Al Qaeda and Iraq.

Well, to be perfectly fair, the fact that an A-Q operative was captured in Iraq now, does not necessarily mean that there was a working relationship between A-Q prior to the war. The argument can be advanced that A-Q is there now, because we are there now.

Of course, there could also have been a partnership prior to the war, and I think there probably was -- which makes the whole thing moot. ;-)

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Well, to be perfectly fair, the fact that an A-Q operative was captured in Iraq now, does not necessarily mean that there was a working relationship between A-Q prior to the war. The argument can be advanced that A-Q is there now, because we are there now.

And thus, they are not here now. And no matter how you slice it, that's a good thing.

[jpl]

Of course, there could also have been a partnership prior to the war, and I think there probably was -- which makes the whole thing moot. ;-)

I agree. There's still the whole point in dispute about Mohammed Atta meeting an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague, which the Czech government absolutely stands by, but our government says there's no evidence for. And if you ask me, the credibility of our intelligence services doesn't really look too good right now.

Plus, there's the little matter of Abu Nidal being assassinated in Iraq by Saddam's thugs, and I don't believe for one second that Abu Nidal just happened to decide to move there shortly prior to the war.