Bush didn’t “make an admission” that said no links at all, you mistate what he has said, and your use of Bush is a logical fallacy. Argument of an authority you don’t even agree with!
Any statements of the ‘no connection’ have been in context of ‘operation linkage’ and 9/11. Why? Because to claim that there was no link at all is disproven by multiple examples of links! Did Bush ever say “No, saddam didn’t actually help Al qaeda with weapons training in 1995”. I’ve never seen that quote. But if you read the 9/11 commision report, that fact is in there, so even if a politician made a statement it would contradict that report. And it is also in other reports.
There are facts out there. If you aren’t willing to acknowledge those facts, there is not a discussion. You don’t seem interested in the truth, just making a bogus point.
DID YOU KNOW THIS? ...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/990ieqmb.asp
“SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support—temporarily, it seems—after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.
The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. “
There are connections. The truth will set you free...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/152lndzv.asp
http://www.amazon.com/Connection-Collaboration-Hussein-Endangered-America/dp/0060746734
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13903
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006934.php
US Govt document stated:
“In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.”
Then it should be easy for you to locate Bush establishing such a link. Pointing out an admission counter to interest isn't invalid.
If you think it is a logical fallacy you better dig out a copy of Copi's Logic and read the section on argumentum ad verecundiam, as you evidently think any appeal to authority is a fallacy. Bush is certainly an authority on his own interest and qualified to be quoted.