I agree with you about that.
But in this instance, to me if the info in this article was true, this would be the October surprise, a positive and GWB would definitely be using this info in the debates.
Well we had knowledge of their connections for years and it was a fairly common topic of discussion in the RATmedia during the late nineties when it even ran articles about Salman Pak and the Sudan connection.
Richard Clarke and DefSec Cohen gave Congressional testimony stating that there was a connection in the Sudan between Iraq and OBL including stating that the drug store Clinton blew up was a joint operation between the Iraqi military intelligence and OBL.
So given the prior knowledge of this connection and the continuous dismissal and historical rewrites since 9/11 this article does not seem to be a sufficient surprise excellent as it is.
Besides the October Surprise was initially mentioned as a RAT trick on Bush. I believe the OS was initially meant to be Rather/Guard attack which was to be followed up by that whole Texas RAT clown show. Since Lurch was doing so poorly in the polls in Sept. they panicked and released the memos before they had time to gin them up properly.