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War On Terror: Saying that Saddam Hussein had no role in the operational planning for 9-11 is like saying that Adolf Hitler had no role in the operational planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor. And the point is?

References to 9-11 infuriate Democrats and their un-indicted co-conspirators in the media because they put the focus where it belongs -- on 3,000 lives being snuffed out by murderous thugs who plant car bombs outside training hospitals and fly passenger jets into skyscrapers, and not on whether the air conditioning at Gitmo is turned up too high.

They're upset because it reminds us who our enemies really are -- the bin Ladens and Zarqawis of the world, not Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. It also reminds us that for all their "are-we-there-yet?" whining they have no strategy to fight terror, other than providing lawyers for captured jihadists and setting a date certain for our surrender, uh , withdrawal.

After President Bush's speech to the troops at Fort Bragg, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi opined that the president "is willing to exploit the sacred ground of 9-11, knowing there is no connection between 9-11 and the war in Iraq." That country, she also claimed, "is now what it was not when the war began -- a magnet for terrorism." So where should the "magnet for terrorism" be? An American city?

Democrats who objected to President Bush's references to 9-11 on the grounds that there was no link between Iraq and 9-11 are both wrong and miss the point. Saddam's Iraq, al-Qaida and other states and terrorist groups were and are linked by their common enemy and their common goal: They want the United States destroyed. They are allies as much as Germany, Japan and Italy were allies in World War II. They may not coordinate every jot and ...