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March 14, 2008
Study Finds No Qaeda-Hussein Tie
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — There was no direct operational connection between Saddam Hussein’s government and Al Qaeda before the war in Iraq, says a Pentagon-sponsored study released Wednesday.
The report, by the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally financed research institution, found “no smoking gun†after a review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that have come into American hands since the March 2003 invasion. Senior administration officials cited the existence of ties between Mr. Hussein and the terrorist network run by Osama bin Laden as a rationale for the invasion of Iraq...
Not that I haven't said the war was based on a lie a thousand times before this, but there you go.
Meanwhile that "surge" to allow political progress in Iraq, the whole purpose of the "surge", is not working apparently. But don't take my word on it, ask General David Patraeus. Buried story number 2, page A10 of the Washington Post...
Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said in an interview that "no one" in the U.S. and Iraqi governments "feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation," or in the provision of basic public services.
