Joshua Marshall has been posting of late regarding a Weekly Standard piece on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. You can read the Standard's story here. This is the latest rebuttal from Marshall's website and here is an article of his from The Hill.

In a nutshell, The Weekly Standard's article sets down a number of points which allegedly prove a link between Hussein and Al-Qaeda. Marshall (and others) point out that their "evidence" consists of recycled charges that made the rounds anywhere from months to years ago. The fact that Douglas Feith is the name most closely associated with the memo doesn't help either. Feith is about as objective as Ahmed Chalabi in this regard.

Meanwhile, it's starting to look more and more like civil war in Iraq. Is this what Bush means when he says the Iraqi people are better off?