I often urge my readers to read news around the globe. By only reading American news which to say the least is lacking and biased you are only receiving part of the puzzle. One needs to put the pieces together to get the final picture. Of course, if you only speak English that may be a bit of a problem! However, there are dozens of international newspapers available in English.
Unfortunately, globally recognized French newspaper “Le Monde” is not one of them. So I will do my best to sum up this very interesting article. Le Monde conducted an interview with former ambassador John Bolton in Paris on January 29, 2007 which was published.
Mr. Bolton said that “he still continues to believe the fundamental decision to topple Saddam Hussein was a good one.” 
However, later in the interview he said that the U.S. has made several mistakes in the Iraq War. One of them being that he believes the U.S. was too slow in transferring control over to Iraq leaders. He later said that “the U.S. has no strategic interest with stabilizing Iraq whether it be one or three Iraqs. However, we do have a strategic interest in making sure that whoever is in control of Iraq does not have it completely collapse thus becoming a refuge for terrorists or a terrorist state.”
Well Mr. Bolton, the U.S. has done a pretty poor job of that. Before the war, Iraq was not a safe harbor in which Al Qaeda operated nor was it a terrorist state in the sense that it conspired with Al Qaeda to plot attacks against Americans. Today, it is a terrorist state thanks in part to U.S. policies which brought humanitarian, social and economic devastation to the Iraqi people.
al-Qaeda is not the only terrorist organization in the world, Saddam’s funding of terrorism from the West Bank to the Philippines is well documented, no wonder no one listens to you guys.
Thanks for your comment. I really think your name fits your comment b/c your comment is really a mess. I won’t go into too much detail on your comment but I will say this. If you say something is documented show me some official documents. Do me a favor and read the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report released last september (2006) in which the findings were that Bush manipulated intelligence including the Saddam-Al Qaeda link. Yes, this is coming from OUR congress. If you are up for reading over 150 pages of facts from the Senate, then come back and we can discuss this issue further. BTW, if you can not find this document I would be more than happy to send it or post it on my website. Since it is obvious the congress isn’t handing out free copies of it for obvious reasons.