There is good reason for this. Hussein is an evil man but the Bin Laden philosophy is foreign to his world view. Hussein is an avid secularist and his regime gives relative equality to women. He is not a radical Islamist type and never has been. In this respect, his regime represents an affront to the Taliban and Al Quada types. War is a serious business and shadowy and tenuous links (which may also exist to even a greater degree for such diverse countries as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Syria, etc.) do not provide sufficient justification.
The agenda for "taking out" Hussein has little to do with Al Qaeda and much more to do with balance of power politics, "finishing the job" started by Bush I, forcing weapons inspections, pursuing the phantom and utopian goal of creating a "democratic Iraq" as a counterweight to Saudi Arabia, and finally oil. None of these are sufficient to provide an adequate justification for the American people or the rest of the world. Links to Al Quada are merely a pretext to achieve other priorities. In fact, what we have here is a war in search of a pretext.
Just curious.
The Saudis are far and away the preeminent backers and perpetrators of terror and establishers of the Wahabbi (sp?) schools of diabolic theology. Is there some reason other than blind allegiance to GWB that you're all fired up to bomb Iraq while ignoring these facts?