[Pelham]

Al Qaeda had bases in Afghanistan and allies in the Taliban gov't. A legitimate and necessary target for military action. Iraq had an atheistic tyrant that tolerated Christians as well as Moslems. Religion wasn't Saddam's motivation, power was. We discovered no nuclear facilties in Iraq. The claim that we needed to fear a mushroom cloud from Saddam proved false.

When people miscast our efforts in iraq and afghanistan as not related to GWOT, they strike me as clueless or disingenuous.

Then you best take that up with Dubya, who when pressed said the administration didn't claim a link between Iraq and al Qaeda. A number of Bush's inner circle were spoiling for a fight with Saddam while Clinton was still in office. They weren't shy about it, you can still see their position on Iraq at PNAC.

[WOSG]

Why do you leave out all the relevent facts?
Saddam support multiple terrorist organizations, in Iran, Algeria, Palestinians, Abu Nidal, etc.
Saddam’s IIS did help Al Qaeda and offered Bin laden safe haven in Iraq in 1998. Saddam had nuclear amditions albeit dormant program.

I don’t want to argue this, it’s off-topic, but this pleading that Saddam was disconnected from terrorism is exactly the “clueless or disingenuous” stuff I am talking about. Even if you or others have been buffaloed by the leftwing whitewash on this.