Remember the huge 600,000 collection of Iraqi documents gathered after the war? The ones some right-wingers predicted would vindicate Bush’s decision to invade by showing the al-Qaida/Saddam link?

The Pentagon concludes there was no such link (as reported this week by the McClatchy Newspapers). None. Whatsoever. Saddam supported some Middle Eastern terrorists (which isn’t news, of course), but not al-Qaida (and one of the groups, the Iranian terrorists in exile MKE, were supported by the USA as well).

According to one blogger–the McClatchy article doesn’t say so–there’s nothing that indicates Saddam ever tried to have the elder Bush assassinated either.

Of course, it will be no surprise to most of America that there is no Saddam/al-Qaida link, just as most Americans probably know that “al-Qaida in Iraq” has nothing to do with al-Qaida, contrary to John McCain’s recent statements.

To the minority that still supports Bush’s war, on the other hand, any statements that Saddam wasn’t hand in glove with al-Qaida and didn’t have a vast stockpile of superweapons now hidden in Syria (or wherever) is just part of the liberal media coverup.

So if everyone either knows what I just said or refuses to believe it, was there any point to posting it?

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