Bipartisan Senate Report Disputes Iraq's Ties to Al Qaeda

I object to the headline and wording of this Washington Post piece because it makes a rather weak case out of a much more strongly worded bipartisan Senate report that pretty much obliterates any argument that Saddam Hussein or Iraq had ties to al Qaeda. It's also no coincidence that this report gets dumped out on a Friday afternoon when it will get ignored and just before 9-11 when it will get extra ignored.

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee (which sounds like an oxymoron and likely is) Pat Roberts worked like hell to keep this report from seeing light of day. Only the efforts of Republican moderates Chuck Hagel and (was it Olympia Snowe or Collins?) got it out at all.