declassified in 2007 debunked claims that Pentagon official Douglas Feith had made in order to bolster the Bush administration's case for war, that there was a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

"The Feith office alternative intelligence assessments concluded that Iraq and al Qaeda were cooperating and had a 'mature, symbiotic' relationship, a view that was not supported by the available intelligence, and was contrary to the consensus view of the Intelligence Community," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said in a statement.

In fact, George Piro, the former FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein, confirmed to CBS News that the Iraqi dictator had viewed Osama bin Laden as a threat.

In 2008, President George W. Bush admitted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that al Qaeda had not been Iraq before the invasion.

"Yeah, that's right," Bush agreed. "So what?"