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To: Lane3 who wrote (84969)	9/16/2008 8:42:21 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

I didn't say you made it up. Of course the bushies have been pushing that line for a while, but it wasn't a line they pushed going into the war. It was mostly a rationalization when the excellent adventure went south on them. Rather than address the glib "al Qaeda did convene in Iraq after the war started", I will leave you with this link to a long, pretty comprehensive article that goes into gory detail on the history of "al Qaeda in Iraq" and its erstwhile leader Zarqawi: theatlantic.com A little blurb from farther on than you'll probably choose to read: One can only imagine how astonished al-Zarqawi must have been when Colin Powell named him as the crucial link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime. He was not even officially a part of al-Qaeda, and ever since he had left Afghanistan, his links had been not to Iraq but to Iran. Zarqawi's base in remote Kurdistan was of course known before the war; it was out of Saddam's reach and could have been taken out any time. That kind of action didn't fit in well with the great game strategy Cheney and crew were cooking up, though.