The latest CIA report casts serious doubts on whether there was ever any real link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9831216/site/newsweek/

This makes Cheney et al.'s statements regarding this link, as well as Powell's speech to the UN, seem even more problematic. Along with the obvious falsity of the claim that Hussein had large stockpiles of WMDs and that he tried to obtain yellowcake uranium from Africa, yet another pillar of the Bushites case for war against Iraq seems to be crumbling.