Because people have an unfortunate habit here of just repeating what they want to believe to each other over and over and over again.
I said "Al Queda" not "Terrorists." Not all terrorists are Al Queda members.
The camp SE of Baghdad appears to be connected to Palestinian terrorist groups.
Al Queda had camps, and plenty of them in Afghanistan. There was no particular reason for them to train in Iraq. For all the obsession over the aircraft at Salman Pak, there is no evidence that a single 9/11 hijacker has EVER set foot in Iraq; most were from Saudi Arabia, spent time in Afghanistan, Europe, and the pilots trained in the United States.
And I supported the war on Iraq. However, it's become some sort of ideological test here to blindly believe that Iraq and Al Queda were very closely tied.
Hmmmmmm..... I don't recall the President calling for a "War against Al-Queda and Al-Queda only as we wouldn't want non-related terrorist groups getting wiped out as well, so lets just go after Al-Queda OK?" I seem to remember that this was a war against terrorists.
BTW the war in Iraq that is claimed to have been all about WMD was in "fact" about the Iraqi Regime failing to live up to the commitments it signed to end the first Gulf War and its failure to abide by 17 seperate UN Resolutions calling for it to fully disarm and account for all known WMDs and WMD Programs.
President Bush framed these arguments with the idea that, until Iraq proves to the US that it no longer has the WMDs that it was both "known" to have or was suspected of having, both by the US and the UN, this administration would assume that they still had them and were a threat to the US as those weapons could find their way into the hands of terrorists that might use them against us. I do not remember the President saying that Iraq was a "threat to the US" in any other manner than perhaps providing weapons to terrorists. I may be wrong and if I am please provide a direct link to said claim and I will revise my words.