Brian Griffin thinks I'm grasping at straws with Tuesdays post on a report of a document that may show that Osama bin Laden was an Iraqi "collaborator". I'm going to have to disagree.

For 2 years we've heard from the left that Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. We can't attack Iraq, they have nothing to do with Osama. Iraq under Saddam is a secular government; Al Qaeda hates them as much as they hate us!

Documents like this and those that show that Abdul Rahman Yasin, 1993 WTC bomber, was given safe harbor in Iraq go to show that no matter how much the left may disagree, the Iraq war was not completely disconnected from the War on Terror. We didn't attack Iraq because we needed oil (have you looked at gas prices recently?). We didn’t attack Iraq because it was good politically. We didn't attack Iraq just because we felt like it. We attacked Iraq because they had terrorist connections and our best intelligence said they had WMD. We attacked Iraq because we thought they posed a threat.

I can't say whether the document is real or if real, true, but if it is then it's an illustration of the threat a Baathist Iraq posed. It would certainly be important and certainly is not "grasping at straws".