Read All About It. Saddam Did Not Do It.

If you've got the time and energy, you can cruise through the declassified version of Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents Volume 1 (Redacted), a pdf file now hosted on Daily Kos servers. The total, including appendices, runs to 70 pages. If you do delve into it, what you'll be looking at is the declassified portion of a document written in January 2007.

As one anonymous source told McClatchy on Monday, before the Cheney-Bush administration stepped in to make the entire five-volume report more difficult for citizens to see and evaluate, there are no surprises. As reported previously, the researchers looked at 600,000 captured Iraqi documents and found not one shred of evidence linking the dictator Saddam Hussein and the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

In other words, they confirmed what the CIA said in February 2002, what the National Intelligence Estimate said in August 2002, what the 9/11 Commission said in July 2004, what the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II report said in September 2006, and what various investigative journalists said before and after the invasion of Iraq by the Cheney-Bush gang.

Not that Saddam comes out in the report - any of those reports - as a good guy. But if you want a far better (highly readable) look at the man from the same Iraqi Perspectives Project that did the latest report, try A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership. (Warning: 230-page pdf file.)

[Update: A fix on the first link is underway. Complicated because of pdf loading.]