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Kerry said on 9/21 during a campaign speech that we now know there were no connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq. He must not have read the Senate Intelligence Committee Report or the 9/11 Commission Report, both of which cited the many connections between Iraq and AQ. A high ranking Iraqi fedayeen soldier attended at least one pre planning 9/11 meeting with AQ. Saddam knew 9/11 was coming and where we were going to be hit. Even the Clinton Justice Department was able to obtain an indictment against OBL which cited the terrorist's ties to Iraq. A federal judge has...

Why did the Bush administration immediately suspect that Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks when there was no evidence of any connection, as Richard Clarke and other Bush critics maintain? Maybe it was because there was indeed evidence, very dramatic evidence, in fact - in the form of warnings in the state-run Iraqi press that such an attack was coming, along with praise for Osama bin Laden and his kamikaze hijackers in the days after the World Trade Center was destroyed. Less than two months before 9/11, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper "Al-Nasiriya" carried a column headlined, "America, An Obsession Called...