[Tex Pete]

Who ever said there was an operational link between the two?!

No one has ever suggested or implied such a thing. Guess they tore that straw man to pieces!

Of course, they haven’t disproven the fact that al Qaeda did have at least one training camp in Iraq, that Zarqawi lived in Iraq, or that Saddam was paying suicide bombers.

[tobyhill]

Al-Qaeda means the base and not all “Al-Qaeda” groups were named Al-Qaeda. Ansar al-Islam was an Al-Qaeda funded group that was a merger of a couple other Al-Qaeda funded groups long before the war. I believe there had to have been some operational links between Saddam and Ansar al-Islam which would be links to Al-Qaeda.

[Tamzee]

oh YES there were briefings that linked Saddam to Al Qaeda... and the pointman on that intelligence was a Pentagon Democrat named Chris Carney. After 9/11 he was placed in charge of researching the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda in the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group.

The same Chris Carney who stands by the Saddam/Al Qaeda relationship when pushed and admits that “I know what I saw.”

Despite all that, in the midst of the Bush Lied canard, the Democrats ran Carney for Congress and MOVEON.org helped fund his campaign.

The man behind the research convincing Tenet and the White House of those ties was elected to Congress by the Democrats in 2006, funded by the “anti-war” crowd... how DARE they pretend “Bush Lied”.

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Just a few of the articles mentioning pieces of this...

A New House Democrat With an Insiders’ View of Iraq

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/us/politics/28carney.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1205209563-NMftHKRE6AAHnYF+BBMz/w

RNC Mailing Accuses Pa. Democrat Of Helping To Start the War in Iraq

http://www.nysun.com/article/42019