"Bush, Powell, Cheney, et. al. were laying out all their convincing "proof" in 1998?"

...and the likes of Gore didn't disagree at that point on the notion of Iraq as a center of terrorism. Yes, Ebbie, I listened to the Gore speech (I'm the one who linked to it, remember?) and in it he clearly makes the case for Iraq as a terrorism center and chides Bush the senior for not taking that seriously.