I will have to disagree with you about one thing. The circumstances surrounding the relationship between Iraq and AQ is not circumstantial. Far from it. It's rock solid.
And it was detailed going back to the 90's when the MSM wrote frequently about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Iraq and AQ.
And since we got to Iraq, we have found so much more information to absolutely solidly confirm the long standing relationship.
Facts are available here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
We have The Connection by Stephen Hayes, and the footnotes of the 9/11 report.
You and I know what facts have been found, and what they imply.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence that points to a conclusion. You have to recite a list of things to "prove" the Saddam-AQ connection. And everything on the list is refutable by the defense attorneys in the MSM.
You don't have to convince me. We knew in 1992 just by our knowledge of human nature that Saddam was going to want revenge for Gulf War I and was going to help terrorists attack the WTC and Washington, D.C.
State in one sentence for me one piece of information (hard fact) that will convince a high school drop out that Saddam was aiding and abetting al Qaida to attack the World Trade Center.
That is the challenge.
We didn't find the atomic bomb plant or the anthrax plant that would have convinced our high school drop out that the Iraq War was justified.
And because our first claim was not proved, our next claim has to be even more rock solid before it is trotted out in all its glory.
ttt to read later thanks
you are definitely correct on that point. The only problem is that the MSM most important task is to keep that fact from being widely known.
worth reading in its entirety....
worth reading in its entirety....
The 'Unholy Alliance' was forged in Iraq. Remember how the Marxist cabal within the west went ballistic at even a suggestion that the secular Saddam could work with the fundamentalist islamists ? They were obviously clueless or hiding something more sinister.