Vindication ! Not that any of us are surprised ...

It appears that the US has finally concluded that Saddam Hussein had NO (I repeat NO ...) ties to Al-Qaeda. Check out the News here

I was a fierce opponent of almost all the things that Jean Chretien did (over his career); yet I supported his decision not to join the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq.

I am for the War on Terror and think that it should be conducted in Afghanistan - and covertly applied against other regimes. I am against the War in Iraq however, and have been since Day One.

ANYONE who knows the politics of the Middle-East knew that Hussein and Al-Qaeda were fundamentally like "oil and water," and that any attempt at linking them was not only preposterous, but an obvious lie as well.

What a waste of men, resources, tactics and strategy. More dangerously, it has created a false link between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the public mind - and THAT could have a deleterious effect on long-term National Security.