It was indeed just regarded as common knowledge back in the 1990s that Osama and Saddam were linked. Since Bush was elected, however, the press has gotten amnesia and can't remember even its own reporting.
And did you know that a bunch of 9/11 families sued Iraq over their involvement in 9/11?
And that in the 90's, the MSM wrote dozens of articles about their fear regarding the growing relationship between Saddam and OBL?
Now we're just supposed to think that stuff didn't happen.