Iraq-Al Qaeda links conjured by Bushies

No surprise here: "The Bush administration's claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida - one of the administration's central arguments for a pre-emptive war - appears to have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration's claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons," reports the Knight Ridder team of Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott.