Desperately Seeking A Saddam-al Qaeda Link

Jeez, these people (e.g. Instapundit) never give up, do they? Turns out that former major in Saddam's army--Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi-- was a member of al Qaeda. Not a colonel, not a general, not one of Saddam's inner circle...but a major. Jeez, I wonder whether any second lieutenants will show up?

This rather reminds me of that business a couple of weeks back in which some Bush dead-enders (e.g. Tom DeLay) were trying to argue that since now, four years into the war, the insurgents were using some chlorine gas, this showed that there were WMDs in Iraq after all. The mind, she reeleth.

It's almost too ridiculous to respond to, but here goes: Saddam and al Qaeda, see, they didn't get along. We know that. You could look it up. But it would be virtually impossible for there to be no overlap between the Iraqi government and al Qaeda. In fact, even though we know there was no significant operational relationship between the two, it's kind of surprising how little incidental overlap there has turned out to be. There's a lot more overlap between the current Iraqi government and al Qaeda than there was between Saddam's government and al Qaeda. Should we bomb al Maliki?

Somebody needs to tell these people that you can't make something true just by insisting on it.