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The Wall Street Journal and William Kristol discuss the recent Pentagon report that details Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism, and wonder why the White House is staying silent.

WSJ:

The redacted version of "Saddam and Terrorism" is the most definitive public assessment to date from the Harmony program, the trove of "exploitable" documents, audio and video records, and computer files captured in Iraq. On the basis of about 600,000 items, the report lays out Saddam's willingness to use terrorism against American and other international targets, as well as his larger state sponsorship of terror, which included harboring, training and equipping jihadis throughout the Middle East.

Kristol:

So, this week's fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war will bring us countless news stories reexamining the case for war, with the White House essentially pleading nolo contendere. Even though there is abundant evidence that Iraq was a serious state sponsor of terrorism--and would almost certainly have become a greater one if Saddam had been left in power--most Americans will assume there was no real Saddam-terror connection. After all, they haven't heard the Bush administration say otherwise.

The White House doesn't mention it because they're probably too embarrassed about the whole lack of Iraq-AQ linkage. There was never any doubt that there were links to terrorism in general. Talk about a red herring.