"thunder" wrote

It was there, but it wasn't a terrorist training facility. According to
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report, it was used to train
Fedayeen troops for *counterterrorism* operations. ....

That seems reasonable. After all Saddam feared radical Muslims like Bin
Laden. They hated him for runnung a more or less secular state instead of
acting like the taliban. That makes any Al Qaeda - Iraq connection
extremely unlikely.

The most probable explaination for the war I've heard is that outgoing
Clinton staff switched the "N" and "Q" keys in the SW in all White House
computers, causing the village idiot to attack Iraq instead of Iran. Not
that it's very likely, just more plausible than anything Bush supporters
have come up with.