[cyncooper]

The only ones who did not believe an AQ/Iraq connection were those who sought to undermine the administration.

It's worse than that. It's not that they don't believe, it's that they know for a fact the connection exists but lie about it in order to undermine this administration.

That is pure evil. It is as anti American as I can imagine.

[Peach]

Thanks for the correction, and you're right. I remember seeing a list somewhere of all the major news organizations that wrote about the Iraq/AQ connection in 1998. There were at least a dozen, Newsweek among them.

[Peach]

Thanks for the correction, and you're right. I remember seeing a list somewhere of all the major news organizations that wrote about the Iraq/AQ connection in 1998. There were at least a dozen, Newsweek among them.

[driftless]

As obvious evidence of Al Qaeda terrorist acts in Iraq roll in, the Bush critics are down to saying that there was no connection before the war. Now even if that assertion were true, which as the evidence shows it is not, would not the present AQ terrorism in Iraq prove the administration's point anyway? How liberals can deny the complicity of the various anti-democratic terrorists groups in Iraq and around the world and keep a straight face is beyond me.