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The Senate Intelligence Committee Report was produced by liberal staff writers with a clear ideological axe to grind. From the evidence that was omitted, ignored, distorted and misrepresented in the report, it is clear there was an ongoing relationship between the Ba'athist regime and Al Qaeda. In fact, it is a relationship that continues to this very day. All we have for the report's tendentious and highly suspect claim that Saddam never had a relationship with much less than supported AQ is his own word. So the U.S Senate Intelligence Committee takes the word of a pathological psychopath in support of its preposterous theory that Saddam the secular dictator was opposed to the radical Islamofascist Osama Bin Laden. History begs to differ. We should leave the final and more revealing words on the subject to Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih:

And late last week, following the release of the Senate report, Barham Salih, deputy prime minister of Iraq, had this to say: "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." Salih continued: "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."

You won't find this anywhere in the Senate report since it contradicts the liberal staff writers' objective to create a halo around Saddam Hussein and to also advance the now discredited notion Iraq is NOT a central front in the War On Terror. The above facts will not make their way either into the Drive By Media. Some day, a full account of the relationship between the Saddam dictatorship and the terrorists it sponsored will be produced. As Stephen F. Hayes notes, given what we know about the Senate report, in view of its deficiencies and grave shortcomings, "is unlikely to merit even a footnote in [ such a future] history."

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )