There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush's justification for invading Iraq.
Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.
Republicans countered that there was little new in the report and Democrats were trying to score election-year points with it.
The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.
It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.
The 400-page report comes at a time when Bush is emphasizing
Saddam Hussein, as loathsome as he is, had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. That's a FACT. And in chasing after Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush not only dropped the ball on the Al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan and allowed Osama Bin Laden to escape, but turned Iraq into an anarchic, chaotic mess that now IS a haven for terrorists. And for those few of you who read this who are still clinging to the notion that Iraq is somehow tied to 9/11, please write in the comments about the kind of logical hoops you are jumping through to get there. I'm all ears.
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