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Why isn't this thread 300+ posts by now?

Hey, Kim. Probably because it is Saturday night. I'll be happy to give it a bump.

I am becoming a very big fan of Spain, that is for sure.

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in recent months George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, has made increasingly strong statements alleging such a connection. In Congressional testimony last month, he said that Iraq had co-operated with al-Qaeda for 10 years, and that it had trained al-Qaeda members in bombmaking and the use of chemical and biological weapons. In an apparent attempt to refute the sceptics, he said this information 'comes from reliable sources'.

And this and other statements from U.S. officials inspired Sen. Tom "Pile of Dung" Harkin to openly mock the administration on the Senate floor as "trying" to draw a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda merely to drum up support for a war. This uttered during the Estrada filibuster.