No Saddam Al-Qaeda Link? - So What!

Saddam 'had no link to al-Qaeda' - BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5328592.stm

That's not news. The implication that Bush fabricated the justification for going to war with Iraq is nothing more than western elitist self-hating nonsense.

Do all of the intelligent anti-war liberals really think that the President and leaders of many other nations went to war in Iraq on a whim and/or a lie? Do they forget what happened on 9/11? Do they forget that Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people? Do they forget that Saddam came within an Israeli airstrike of developing nuclear weapons in the 80's?

As much as the article points out that Saddam and Al Qaeda were polar opposites of each other, so were Stalin and Hitler, who had no trouble concluding a secret deal to carve up Poland and then later ended up fighting a bloody war with each other.

There weren't any links between Al Qaeda and Saddam, but the conditions for an evil alliance were certainly present, and preventing it from taking root by invading Iraq was a crucial step in the defense of freedom against Islamofascism.