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Orthodox opinion in the Democratic Party holds that there was never any real linkage between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Osama bin Laden, and the Bush administration either “exaggerated” or outright lied about such a connection during the build-up to war. This assumption has become pervasive on talk shows and editorial pages. Indeed, many Democrats and liberal pundits speak as if the Baathist-al Qaeda connection had been conclusively refuted...
Bush was probably correct to separate Baghdad from Sept. 11 (though the Czech government still maintains that Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001). But the administration’s seeming timidity on the broader issue of pre-war links between Saddam and bin Laden is puzzling. To be sure, it is now indisputable that Baathist Iraq had some degree of contact with al Qaeda during much of the past 10 years. Those still not persuaded should consider all that’s emerged since the war began last March...
...France, he said, had no difference with the U.S. "over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." The point of distinction was simply that Chirac thought that war - which he believed would outrage Arab and Islamic public opinion and "create a large number of little bin Ladens"--should be a last resort...
...Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through." R. KELLY, hip-hop star awaiting a child-pornography trial in Illinois, complaining about the criticism he has received from people who "don't even know...
...America would not have been able to sustain the military operations we now support without Reagan's rebuilding efforts. The largest military pay raise in history was signed by him. He believed in a strong America and backed that doing what needed to be done to make us safe. Bin-Laden would not have come at us with Reagan in office. Msgt. Ron Axley Indianapolis...