Ohp, and the Washington Post didn't seem to agree with the Al-Qaeda links, either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun16.html
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As recently as Monday, Cheney said in a speech that Hussein "had long-established ties with al Qaeda." Bush, asked on Tuesday to verify or qualify that claim, defended it by pointing to Abu Musab Zarqawi, who has taken credit for a wave of attacks in Iraq.
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The staff report said that bin Laden "explored possible cooperation with Iraq" while in Sudan through 1996, but that "Iraq apparently never responded" to a bin Laden request for help in 1994. The commission cited reports of contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda after bin Laden went to Afghanistan in 1996, adding, "but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship.
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Do a search for the justification for the invasion of Iraq. Bush has stated repeatedly that Iraq was a central front in the War on Terror. This at the very best was misleading, as many Americans make the connection between "War on Terror" and "Al-Qaeda".