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.
That's a good post and I'm not trying to be argumentative.
I see the left raise the bar time and time again and we (Republicans) fall for it.
Since the day after 9/11, the president said we would go after, in various ways, those who harbor, fund and work with the terrorists.
We know that Iraq harbored and worked with AQ. That IS rock solid evidence.
So now the left has raised the bar that we have to have evidence that Iraq worked with AQ to conduct the 9/11 attacks. There is circumstantial evidence to support that Iraq did help out, but you are correct, it is only circumstantial evidence.
Even that wouldn't matter to them. Neither would rock-solid evidence that Iraq was fully-involved with 9/11.
The polarization of this nation has become so complete that victory at the polls(for the left) supercedes victory against a common enemy.
Republicans no longer have a 'loyal-opposition' in the form of the Democrat party... they face a media-driven, leftist-socialist cabal dedicated to reform this nation from its own ashes.
"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. "
How about two words: Salman Pak.
The training grounds outside Bagdad where they kept a 747 fuselage for the express purpose of training terrorists to take over an airplane using available weapons (ie boxcutters) - the tactic used on 9/11 - and which was visited by at least one of the 19 hijackers.
I would make a lot more of this if I were on W's PR team.