http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/index.htmlWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military's first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon.
The report released by the Joint Forces Command five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq said it found no "smoking gun" after reviewing about 600,000 Iraqi documents captured in the invasion and looking at interviews of key Iraqi leadership held by the United States, Pentagon officials said.
The assessment of the al Qaeda connection and the insistence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were two primary elements in the Bush administration's arguments in favor of going to war with Iraq.
The Pentagon's report also contradicts then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who said in September 2002 that the CIA provided "bulletproof" evidence demonstrating "that there are, in fact, al Qaeda in Iraq."
I know this is stating the obvious at least for people who aren't and weren't brainwashed by the Bush fear machine. So, no WMD, no Al Qaeda and no link to terrorism, that leaves us with... wait why are we there again? I can just picture children in their history class 20 years from now studying the war in Iraq as one of the great military and political blunders in American history.
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