In 2004, the Wall St. Journal noted:
the Commission heard Wednesday from Patrick Fitzgerald. The former Manhattan prosecutor was asked about his 1998 indictment against Osama bin Laden that asserted that al Qaeda had an "understanding" with Iraq that it would not "work against that government" and that "on certain projects, specifically including weapons development," they would "work cooperatively."Mr. Fitzgerald testified that "there was that relationship that went from opposing each other to not opposing each other to possibly working with each other."
Is this the same federal prosecutor who indicted Vice President Cheney's aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury?
If so, this creates a particularly interesting issue for Democrat partisans.
In their zeal to tie Libby to Cheney to Bush to "Bush LIED," these partisans have already begun taking great pains to portray Fitzgerald as an honest, steadfast, "just the facts," prosecutor. And he probably is.
However, if Fitzgerald is that kind of "just the facts" guy, and a year ago he tied Saddam to al Quaeda, then "the facts" tend to show that Bush was right to go to war after all.
