Or dance with who brung ya...or even follow your muse, it always knows (said with a British accent for rhyming purposes). You pick the title of this post.
Anyways, Instapundit links to a Claudia Rosset piece on the connections between al Qaeada and Saddam Hussein with the following statement:
...I know it's an article of faith -- in the most literal sense -- of the antiwar crowd that no such connections exist...
And to be fair, it is an article of faith of some in the pro-war crowd that they are firm connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. All sides have their misinformation...let's look at what Ms. Rosset has to say about said connections.
...Actually, there were many connections, as Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn, writing in the current issue of the Weekly Standard, spell out under the headline "The Mother of All Connections." Since the fall of Saddam, the U.S. has had extraordinary access to documents of the former Baathist regime, and is still sifting through millions of them. Messrs. Hayes and Joscelyn take some of what is already available, combined with other reports, documentation and details, some from before the overthrow of Saddam, some after. For page after page, they list connections--with names, dates and details such as the longstanding relationship between Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Saddam's regime.
Messrs. Hayes and Joscelyn raise, with good reason, the question of why Saddam gave haven to Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the men who in 1993 helped make the bomb that ripped through the parking garage of the World Trade Center. They detail a contact between Iraqi intelligence and several of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia, the year before al Qaeda destroyed the twin towers. They recount the intersection of Iraqi and al Qaeda business interests in Sudan, via, among other things, an Oil for Food contract negotiated by Saddam's regime with the al-Shifa facility that President Clinton targeted for a missile attack following the African embassy bombings because of its apparent connection to al Qaeda. And there is plenty more.
Ah, the debate that shall have no end.
