Ex-Officials Dispute Iraq/al-Qaida Links (Washington Post): “As President Bush works to quiet a controversy over his discredited claim of Iraqi uranium shopping in Africa, another of his prewar assertions is coming under fire: the alleged link between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaida.”
Of course anyone who was following the news closely, and reading something other than the editorial page of the WSJ, knew there was no link--just as most informed people knew about the forgeries behind the WMD claim. The Bush administration is saying that the controversy is at at end: “the president has moved on,” said a spokesman. Maybe, but with Bush’s polls numbers falling and the mainstream press now seriously focused on this, the controversy is getting hotter by the day. Could this scandal bring down the entire war party?