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Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

— Elizabeth Dole

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

— Douglas Feith

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

— George Tenet

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

— Ed Royce

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

— Mike McCaul

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

— Michael Scheuer

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

— Robert Foster Bennett

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

— Douglas Feith

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

— John Olver

✗Opposing Perspectives

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

— Brent Scowcroft