Bush: "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11 September attacks"

From the BBC:

Bush administration on Iraq 9/11 link

US President George W Bush has explicitly stated for the first time that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks.

Mr Bush has never directly accused the former Iraqi leader of having a hand in the attacks on New York and Washington, but he has repeatedly associated the two in keynote addresses delivered since 11 September. Senior members of his administration have similarly conflated the two.

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Current news? Hardly, as this article was published Thursday, 18 September, 2003, well over two years ago. Then why is the connection still being made? The fact is that al Qaeda was not in Iraq until after the U.S. invasion.

(For two more references, go to "Iraq dumped WMDs years ago, says Blix" and "No Iraq link to September 11 plot, US report finds," both from the U.K. newspaper, Guardian Unlimited.)

Are American families sacrificing their loved ones and American taxpayers financing a war that was sold to them based on false pretenses?

You decide.

(For more on this issue see "You decide: Iraq – right or wrong?".)