SADDAM AND AL QAEDA
By now you've seen the intelligence linking Saddam and al Qaeda as far back as 1990. Sure, there are questions about the reliability and credibility of this information, but imagine the recriminations if the administration did not act on this information and there was another attack by al Qaeda. Would the administration be forgiven for not acting because there was not "proof" of a link, or would they be vilified because they did nothing despite all of the "evidence" of a link?

By it's very nature, intelligence is not a sure thing, even if you have actual photographs. Intelligence contacts are seldom nuns and bankers.

This information is more than enough for Bush to have made a speech saying that we have evidence that Saddam has been working with al Qaeda for years, but he didn't say that. He left it at saying that Saddam simply, generically supported terrorism or that maybe Saddam worked with "affiliates" of al Qaeda.

Perhaps the American people, whom the Democrats have derided for being stupid for thinking there was a connection between al Qaeda and Saddam, were right after all.