The operative clause, as you know, GUEST, is "will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen."

We did not allow that to happen. Bush's surrogates told us it HAD happened, and we had to go to war over it. Now even THEY have admitted that it didn't happen.

Your quote from the last paragraph really shows how weak the connection was. They reached an understanding that Al Qaeda would not overthrow Saddam...wow, they must have been bestest friends, GUEST! They also said that they might work together in the future on weapons development. The problem is that later intelligence shows thay did NOT work together, and that Al Qaeda's overtures to Saddam were essentially rebuffed. So all you have remaining from Clinton's indictment is that Al Qaeda didn't try to overthrow Saddam. Strong evidence, GUEST!