Ties between Al Qaeda and Saddam

In response to yesterday's faux pas from Rummy about there being no hard evidence of a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam, the White House is now trying to re-establish such a link. Here's what they had to say today (I am not making this up):

McClellan ticked off a litany of what he said were links between Iraq and al-Qaida. Both were "sworn enemies of the free world, including the United States"; both "celebrated the Sept. 11 attacks on America," he said.

"There are clearly ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida," McClellan said. "There (were) clearly some disturbing similarities that existed as well."

So this is now the Bush doctrine for starting wars. If Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln, and Lincoln's secretary Kennedy...