so that's apparently what happens when i blog after reading the sunday paper.
meanwhile, it looks like some other people are also mentioning the exaggerated saddam-osama connection. like retired general wesley clark's appearance on meet the press where he stated that the bush administration contacted him on the morning of september 11, 2001 and tried to get him to say the 9-11 attacks were connected with iraq. nevertheless, it seems clark's statements about white house pressure weren't mentioned by many other news sources. cursor also pointed me to this and this. the latter is an a report from september 2002 concerning the lack of evidence of a iraq-al-qaeda connection. more surprisingly, last january bush even admitted that he "cannot make [the] claim" that saddam and al-qaeda were linked. of course, that didn't stop him from citing a connection to al-qaeda at virtually every public pronouncement both before and after that date, including his march 17, 2003 speech that explained the reasons for invading iraq. (ya gotta love the irony of the heading in that last link, which is from the white house's own web site: "Iraq Denial and Deception"). will anyone even ask bush about his contradictory statements?
finally, for an overall summary of the selling of the war in iraq there's this
