there is no evidence Iraq helped conduct an al Qaeda attack

Show me where this has ever been in dispute.

Bush and his top aides have stood firm on assertions of links between Iraq and al Qaeda, with Vice President Dick Cheney forcefully maintaining that evidence may yet emerge depicting an Iraqi role in the Sept. 11 attacks carried out by al Qaeda.

That's an outright lie about Cheney and you know it.

The findings by the Senate Intelligence Committee came less than a month after the government-established commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said there was no evidence of a "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's Islamic militant network.

The "collaborative relationship" was specifically in reference to 911This is what one commissioner said

these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship

[No "established" "formal" relationship] does not equate to "No relationship whatsoever." It's not a denial of any relationship and in fact implies there was a relationship like Lehman said will evident in the 911 report.

What stood out to me is the fact our failures where caused by not having agents on the ground in Iraq. I wonder how long that policy has been in place?

Have we no spies?