I'm sure Bush has better things to do with his time right now than visit Africa. The central problem of Bush's first administration is: can we remove Saddam Hussein from power, without taking millions of casualties and the total economic loss of our cities from the retaliation promised in the letter to Daschle? Everything is coordinated around that extremely difficult problem -- including the strategic deception which has prevented the economy from cratering over the attendant uncertainty since 9/11. No immediate solution to the problem is at hand. If such a solution were possible, we would simply have taken out Saddam a few days after his attacks on New York and Washington, DC. It will be the work of years before we can move against him with something like impunity. In the mean time, every saber will be rattled, every favor will be called in, every pressure will be applied, without let up or surcease. I therefore wouldn't read much into the latest leak of an invasion plan. There have been many of those over the past 12 months, and there will be many more before the problem of Saddam Hussein is finally resolved.
That was bin Laden. Not many accept that there is proof connecting Saddam to 9/11.