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I've had said it several times already. Here we go again.
The justification for the war on Iraq was an assessment made by the Executive Branch and approved by Congress that a combination of factors made Saddam reasonable risk to our national security (please see 2003 SOTUS).
A major concern considered by Congress was the very real possibility that Saddam could channel biological and chemical weapons to terrorists cells. It is possible that one of these could distribution vehicles could have been AQ - there is no concrete proof for this. Congress could not rule out such a relationship in the future. I heard this from a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The relevance of the declaration of war is that it was a rallying cry to other Islamic terrorist groups to join the jihad. Further evidence of this union is now demonstrated in the concerted efforts to thwart the development of democracy in Iraq.
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