You'll note in a previous post where Dick Cheney again this week tried to link Saddam and Osama, even though there simply is not evidence for a link. Well, the 9.11 commission seems to agree:
A senior Iraqi intelligence official reportedly met with bin Laden in 1994 in Sudan, the panel found, and bin Laden 'is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded.'As for quibblingt over the definition of "is," yes, there have been "contacts" between Iraqis and Al Qaida, but if simply having spoken is a "contact" worthy of war then the US has had "contacts" with all sorts of evil people and thus, necessarily, someone should invade us promptly.
'There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship,' the report said. 'Two senior Bin Laden associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al-Qaida and Iraq.'
