The Administration keeps lying to us --

about links between Iraq and Al Qaida. Peter Bergen is an expert on Al Qaeda, and in this article discusses the Administrations continuing attempts to convince the American people that Iraq is responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | This link between Islamist zealot and secular fascist just doesn't add up Moreover, an al-Qaida-Saddam alliance defies common sense. Osama bin Laden is an Islamist zealot who despises secular fascists such as Saddam. I heard from Bin Laden himself that he is no fan of Saddam. When I met with the Saudi exile in Afghanistan five years ago he volunteered that he thought the Iraqi dictator was a "bad Muslim". For Bin Laden, that's as bad as it gets.

Why then has the Bush administration consistently tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida? The answer lies in the administration's quasi-theological conviction that such a connection must exist.