Doug Ross @ Journal

HARMONY begins to reveal the truth about Iraq and Al Qaeda

The HARMONY database -- a huge cache of documents liberated from the Iraqi Intelligence Service -- is beginning to reveal its secrets. Unfortunately for mediacrat superheroes like the Sour Spinster (Maureen Dowd) and Schnozzy McPeacenik (Bill Maher), these documents paint a worst-case scenario for the Bush/lied/WMD/Halliburton/War-for-Oil crowd. It's increasingly clear that Bin Laden and Hussein were indeed cooperating before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Best of all, this information represents just the tip of the iceberg.

In a document dated September 15, 2001, “An Iraqi intelligence service document” says “that their Afghan informant, who’s only identified by a number, told them that the Afghan consul Ahmed Dahastani claimed the following in front of him: * That OBL and the Taliban are in contact with Iraq and that a group of Taliban and bin Laden group members visited Iraq * That the U.S. has proof the Iraqi government and "bin Laden's group" agreed to cooperate to attack targets inside America. * That in case the Taliban and bin Laden's group turn out to be involved in "these destructive operations," the U.S. may strike Iraq and Afghanistan. * That the Afghan consul heard about the issue of Iraq's relationship with "bin Laden's group" while he was in Iran.

This just keeps getting better and better for the administration. Before HARMONY, anyone with an iota of intellectual honesty could look at the Boeing 707 at Salman Pak -- used to train thousands of would-be hijackers -- and the presence of Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Baghdad prior to the war... and know that invading Iraq was absolutely the right thing to do. And President Bush -- on September 20, 2001 -- made it crystal clear what was in store.

Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

But the far Left bank of the Democratic Party has never been described as intellectually honest. They claimed all along that Iraq was a "distraction" from the war on terror (an obvious falsehood) and that there was no significant cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Well, my friends, the HARMONY database is starting to reveal the true depths of that relationship. What it will mean over the long haul is anyone's guess. But one outcome is certain: the Democrats are certain to continue losing elections until and unless they decide to treat the war on terror with the gravity it requires.