What will it take to finally convince the American people that Saddam Hussein had no connection with the 9-11 attacks? Polls continue to show that an enormous number of citizens still believe this fallacy, both those who consider themselves Republicans and those who say they are Democrats.

A CNN poll announced last week reported that 43 percent of those polled still see a direct link between the war in Iraq and 9-11. Perhaps for some people, it’s simply too disheartening to think otherwise, considering the high cost of resources and personnel devoted to the war.

The long-awaited Senate Intelligence Report on pre-war planning was released Friday and once again confirms the absence of a Saddam connection. The 400-page document shows, among many other fi ndings, that:

• Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qa’ida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime.

• Only one meeting between al-Qa’ida and Saddam’s regime was reported in pre-war intelligence assessments; although not reported before the war, there were two occasions in which Saddam rebuffed meeting requests with al-Qa’ida.

• Postwar findings support the Defense Intelligence Agency claim that false assertions were being made about Iraq providing two al-Qa’ida associates with chemical and biological weapons; the detainee who provided this key prewar information later recanted his claims.

• Postwar findings support another Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that there was no credible evidence about the al-Qa’ida training camp at Salman Pak or anywhere else in Iraq.

• Saddam attempted unsuccessfully to arrest al-Zarqawi; and he had no relationship with al-Zarqawi nor did he turn a “blind eye” toward him.

So many of the claims made by the administration that were used to justify the war have been refuted by the so-called appeasers of Islamofascism—even before the war began. Now, the U.S. Senate’s own bipartisan report shows the fallacies of the decision to invade.

When the vice president was asked about the report over the weekend, he answered that he had not read it.

That’s not surprising. There was apparently a lot of important information that was never read before we committed our armed forces to battle.