[Cyclopean Squid]

There were claims of a linkage. And in fact some FReepers continued to stress the point by accumulating evidence of al-Qaeda/Saddam alliance through stories published by the MSM in the late 90s through the beginning of the war.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

There is evidence of linkage. An abundance of it.

The administration, inexplicably, downplayed the linkage. Maybe because they reached the conclusion that we'd be better received in Iraq as liberators rather than avengers, I don't know.

But the evidence is everywhere, and a good deal of it is incontrovertible. And the President has not done nearly enough to emphasize it, which in turn has enabled the left to attack this war's legitimacy with a relentless barrage of provable lies.

IMO, it has been the single greatest mistake of this war.