[cyncooper]

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.

Ha! We're on the same wavelength. See my link at #48 for media stories way back when. Gore knows they had intelligence at the time that Saddam and bin Laden were having talks. Nothing was said back then that the idea was outlandish and unthinkable. Only when the Bush administration speaks of it is the idea questioned.

Grrrrrrrrrrr

And I want to alert anyone who clicks my link in #48, in the posts made on that thread are more media stories and clicking them to read the whole article is most enlightening.

[cyncooper]

Correction: There were some questions advanced back then about the alliance forming, (I originally said it was not questioned at all), but note the tone was that it appeared intelligence tended to support it.

Now it seems our current intelligence and interrogations are serving to confirm rather than refute the older stories.

[Peach]

Thanks for mentioning your links - I'm going to take a look at them now. Hopefully when all this comes out the Rats will look even more misinformed (most people can't force themselves to admit it's deliberate, although we here at FR know better).