Remember this

When Dear Leader goes before the VFW in Salt Lake City today to speak that these words were spoken by him on September 18, 2003:

President Bush, having repeatedly linked Saddam Hussein to the terrorist organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said yesterday there is no evidence that the deposed Iraqi leader had a hand in those attacks, in contrast to the belief of most Americans...

..."No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th"

What the Chimp did at the time, and which many continue to do is use Emanuel Goldstein, Al-Zarqawi to tie links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda. These too are bullshit.

Most of the administration's public assertions have focused on the man Bush mentioned, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior Osama bin Laden associate whom officials have accused of trying to train terrorists in the use of poison for possible attacks in Europe, running a terrorist haven in northern Iraq -- an area outside Saddam's control -- and organizing an attack that killed an American aid executive in Jordan last year.

Security analysts, however, say al-Zarqawi made his way to Iraq, where his leg was amputated. . Unconfirmed reports claim he then visited northern Iraq, where a militant Islamic group affiliated with al-Qaida is encamped not far from the border with Iran.

The group, however, far from being an ally of Saddam, sought to replace his secular government with an Islamic regime.

A senior intelligence official, who asked not to be identified, said the information linking the group, Ansar al Islam, to Saddam comes "almost exclusively from defectors produced by the Iraqi opposition. They are not uniformly credible."

See Curveball et al!

Of course there is more than a little irony of Bush speaking to the VFW. He and his family used all sorts of connections to make sure that he would never qualify for membership, while he and his minions spent last Summer and Fall trashing the service of John Kerry, who earned his membership the hard way.