Originally Posted by host

Defense Department spokesman Larry Di Rita seemed to confirm that the Zarqawi terrorist camp was simply a propaganda prop, left intentionally in place by the Bush administration so that they could direct Colin Powell to use it's existance as the main "evidence" to offer to a skeptical UN, that Saddam had terrorist ties to Al Qaeda. In fact, it actually demonstrates that the U.S. administration had no argument that the camp...or Zarqawi was actually a major terrorist threat that it actually took seriously itself.