http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5223932/

The panel's findings were released two days after Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that Saddam had "long-established ties" with al-Qaida. President Bush defended the statement in a news conference Tuesday, saying the presence in Iraq of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is accused of trying to disrupt the transfer of sovereignty as well as last month's decapitation of American Nicholas Berg, provides "the best evidence of connection to al-Qaida affiliates and al-Qaida."
While I agree that the al-Qaida links may have been relied upon too much as a connection. I still believe that they were there. Maybe not on the top level of governmental cooperation as the administration may have led us to believe, but I dont think that Saddam Hussein would have minded the fact that terrorists dead set against the US would have been operating from his country.