That is an excellent and obviously well written logic sequential essay by Jesse Larner.
I am going to put Larner's effort into my storage in order to fully appreciate.
I perked up to the quality of his post/essay imediately on reading this as i think a sizable majority of the overall public do not have this straight yet.
<<It is telling that one of the few pieces of evidence that the Bush administration ever brought forth to attempt that show that Saddam sided with Islamic fundamentalism was the presence of the Ansar al-Islam group in Iraq, which indeed has ties with al-Qaeda. Except--and this shows just how desperate the Bush people were--Ansar operated only in the north of Iraq--that is, in the de facto Kurdish state, where Saddam had had no control for the last twelve years.>>