IT’S AN ARTICLE OF FAITH among many war critics that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. I’d be interested in hearing what those people have to say about Stephen Hayes’ new book, The Connection : How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. He’s doing some of that dot-connecting that people are, in other contexts, so enthusiastic about.

UPDATE: More here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s one response, but I don’t find it dreadfully persuasive due to the high straw-man quotient. The United States abandoned the war on Al Qaeda?