[MizSterious]

Did you even bother to read the articles in your links?? From the first one:

"Mr Bush did however repeat his belief that the former Iraqi president had ties to al-Qaeda - the group widely regarded as responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington. "

It is known by more than just Chalabi that Salman Pak was used to train AlQaeda. There is even a paper trail, the same paper trail, by the way, that shows who got what in the Oil For Food scam. Perhaps Saddam didn't sit down in a cave with Osama and plot 9/11, but he provided financial support and training for them.

But knowing you, I doubt the facts will deter you.

[JohnGalt]

Salman Pak tinfoil theories came only from Chalabi's since discredited people. One even said that the interpretor Chalabi supplied to translate his statements lied about what he said. On this you send men to war? Come on.

[cookcounty]

"Perhaps Saddam didn't sit down in a cave with Osama and plot 9/11, but he provided financial support and training for them"

Bingo. Just like Saddam's support for (Islamicist!!!) Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Saddam likely didn't plan any bus bombings, but he provided funds to these people and bragged repeatedly about it. Yet you have Drooling-Dems idiotically saying a secularist like Saddam wouldn't aid a gang of religious zealots.