"Al Qaeda also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezballah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States. In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq."

Where's that from? Oh, it must be some kooky claim by one of Bush's crazy neocon warmongers.

What's that? It's not?

It's... from an indictment?

An indictment drawn up by the... Clinton administration?

That's from the original indictment of Bin Laden, in 1998 (in case you're wondering, no Bushes of any sort were President in 1998). Paragraph 4.

But there's no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and there never has been, except in the imaginings of Bush's war-cultists, who apparently successfully infiltrated Clinton's Justice Department and National Security apparatus in 1998.

All of this is very, very interesting. Why isn't it being reported?

Well, silly-- it was reported. Connections between Al Qaeda and Hussein were routinely reported by CNN, NBC, the NYT, the WP as uncontroversial common-sense facts... when Clinton was President.

When it was safe to connect the two.

But now that there's a President who takes such connections seriously... why, we'd better stop reporting them. People could get "the wrong idea."