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If the AQ/Iraq link has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt, then why isn't Bush shouting it out at the top of his lungs? Just because a few terrorists may have trained within Iraq's borders doesn't mean there was an official collaboration between Saddam Hussein and AQ.

By the way, I've seen a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein. What conclusions should I draw from that?

We shook hands, literally and figuratively, with Stalin during WWII too. What do you want to make of that?

And now the bar has been raised so if the president doesn't talk about it, it is not important? Is that your position?

Regardless, it does not take away from the central fact that a Jordanian ringlinger of AQ has admitted that he trained with WMD in Iraq with OBL's head henchman.

As far as a few terrorists training inside Iraq, it was more than a few. There was funding provided to PLO terrorists. There was Salmon Pak where terrorists trained on an airplane. Then there was Saddam's advance knowledge of 9/11:

less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)

In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”

The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your opinion. You want a videotape and until you get it, you won't believe it.

By the way, I've seen a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein. What conclusions should I draw from that?

That he was being polite to a leader of another country decades ago before that leader became our enemy.

Is there some new rule that we may not go to war with any country led by someone who once shook hands with our current SOD?

Oh, I think we've stumbled upon the answer to world peace. Just have all world leaders shake hands with each other.