HoustonChronicle.com - Analysis: 9/11 commission deals blow to president's justification for war

"Already in question, President Bush's justification for war in Iraq has suffered another major setback.

An independent commission threw cold water Wednesday on the administration's insistent claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. That comes on top of the administration's failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Both ideas had been central ingredients of Bush's rationale for invading. "

The Houston Chronicle spells it out, but softly, 'cuz there are lots of Bubbas in the readership!