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FINALLY. For much of the past week, the White House has been engaged in an aggressive effort to defend the case for war in Iraq. Thus far, it has mainly pointed out the obvious: In the months and years before the invasion, many of those who now accuse the White House of misleading the country to war themselves were making precisely the same claims about the threat from Iraq as the Bush administration.President George W. Bush accused his critics of "rewriting history." Vice President Dick Cheney called the attacks a low point of his three decades in public life. Defense...

MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS FROM: GARY SCHMITT SUBJECT: Saddam – bin Laden Connection Last Friday, David Ignatius published an op-ed in the Washington Post commenting on the Weekly Standard article by Stephen Hayes that drew on a Defense Department document detailing contacts between Saddam’s Iraq and Bin Laden’s al Qaeda. The crux of Ignatius’s criticism of Hayes claim of an Iraq – al Qaeda connection is that the CIA and British intelligence had “an unusually well-placed source in Iraq who told them before the war that in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had indeed considered such an operational relationship with...