Postwar information supports prewar assessments and statements that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was in Baghdad and that al Qaeda was present in northern Iraq.

But now, even in a partisan report designed to attack the Bush administration's credibility, the Senate Intelligence Committee has admitted that Bush and his officials were right to argue that Saddam was harboring al Qaeda fugitives. Both prewar and postwar intelligence assessments confirm their view.

And while the Senate Intelligence Committee got this issue right, it got many others wrong. The report is not even internally consistent and the committee simply ignored numerous pieces of information that got in the way of some of its conclusions.

Iraq and al Qaeda did not have a cooperative relationship.

[c]ommittee ignored the best evidence-Iraqi intelligence documents discovered in postwar Iraq.

I think the al Qaeda presence, when combined with the intelligence of the facts regarding Hussein's WMD, his use of WMD in the past, his continued defiance of the UN, his aggression at American military jets, his brutality against his own people, his financial support for terrorists that it is a no-brain-er that the US had to act on Iraq. I think the important thing now is the legacy that is built in the entire Middle East and the eventual impact of 2 economically wealthy liberal-democracies on Iran's borders.

And who dominates this Committee? Rockefeller, Feinstein, Hagel, Snowe, Mikulski, Nelson, Levin, etc....