Terrorist Link Found?

So now CENTCOM is trying to convince us of a definitive link between Iraq and terrorists. Now I'll admit that I believe that we will eventually find an unambiguous link between Saddam and the various terrorist organizations of the region.

But to say that the fact that we have killed Sudanese and Egyptian fighters is not in and of itself proof of a link to terrorism. It does prove that there are other nutcases in the Arab world who think that fighting the US in a losing cause is the ticket to paradise. But it doesn't mean that Saddam and Osama are sharing a cave somewhere.

CENTCOM needs to be careful here. To maintain credibility they need to make sure that when they claim a link, they need to be able to clearly prove it. When they claim to find chemical weapons, they need to be able to clearly prove it. CENTCOM needs to remember that the world is scrutinizing us here. As the military battle draws to a close, the political battle will gain in importance and CENTCOM will be taking a leading role. In order to maintain our credibility, we need to make sure that we are only making completely defensible claims, not tenuous conjecture.