What's Saddam got to do with Al Qaida? All the evidence is they hate each other.

All right, they are both Arabic and Muslims - but that's about as significant as saying Bush and Timothy McVeigh are just the sameby virtue of being being Christian Americans.

Saddam is a nasty piece of work, but there is no evidence whatsoever that he has any ambitions to force the rest of the world to embrace his beliefs - which don't seem to have much to do with anything other than his own survival.