Saddam wanted jihadists kept at arm's length: "The document further undermines pre-war and post-war claims by President George Bush's administration that Saddam had close links with Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaida. Instead, it confirmed the long-held belief of CIA analysts and British intelligence that the two - one a secular dictator, the other a religious zealot - mistrusted each other deeply, and that Saddam would have been loath to share any weapons secrets he might have had with a group he could not control."

Remember, Miserable Failure, during his Top Gun act: "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more."