According to a Washington Post article on November 6, 2005: “The myth that Iraq and al-Qaeda were working together was not the result of an innocent and ignorant mistake by the White House. The president [Bush] and vice president [Dick Cheney] ignored clear warnings, well before the war began–from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency and from the CIA, in classified reports given directly to the White House–that the claim was false.”
– Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 109