One would have to be thick-headed or dishonest to claim not to know that Hussein was sponsoring terrorists.
For those who want to get to the meat of the Al-Qaeda/Hussein connections, the links are:
The main FAS page on Iraq's terrorism connections
Volume 1 (please note that all five of the volumes are very large PDF files)
Another FAS article on the DOD report on captured Iraqi documents
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Ansar al Salam.
Background Links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prewardocs/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iraqdocs/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iraqwardocs/index
Saddam Hussein was a serious threat to the United States.
Of course though the left-wing cast him as being innocent of such a charge.
In his final letter before being executed, Saddam Hussein thanked the left-wing for their support.
In 1998 CNN World ran a story of how Saddam Hussein proclaimed publically a welcome sanctuary in Iraq to Osama Bin Laden. He was an openly sworn enemy to the United States and was the ONLY world leader to openly applaud and approve of the 9/11 attack on the United States.