WALL STREET JOURNAL STILL CLINGS TO NOTION THERE WAS SADDAM-AL QAEDA CONNECTION

The right wing Wall Street Journal still believes there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda despite the fact it has been proven time and time again there never was a connection between the two.

WSJ defends discredited claims of Saddam-al Qaeda ‘collaboration.’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/24/wsj-defends-discredited-claims-of-saddam-al-qaeda-collaboration/

Responding to the recently released Pentagon study on the links between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Al Qaeda, a Wall Street Journal editorial claims that the report “buttress[es] the case that the decision to oust Saddam was the right one“:

Five years on, few Iraq myths are as persistent as the notion that the Bush Administration invented a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Yet a new Pentagon report suggests that Iraq’s links to world-wide terror networks, including al Qaeda, were far more extensive than previously understood.

In fact, as has been widely publicized, the new study “found no ’smoking gun’ (i.e. direct connection) between Saddam’s Iraq and Al-Qaeda.” Nevertheless, many conservatives have tried to cast the report as a vindication of their wild theories about a Saddam-Al Qaeda alliance. More at the Wonk Room.