COMMENTARY

The Saddam-Al Qaeda Connection

The pre-war link between Saddam and Al Qaeda had to be addressed.
By W. Thomas Smith Jr.

The recent revelation by Stephen F. Hayes in The Weekly Standard that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had ties to – and was training thousands of – terrorists in the years prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is actually no revelation at all. It is being treated as such by many Americans, cautiously praised by the White House, and dismissed as groundless by those opposed to the war. Read on.