The American Enterprise Institute, in an interview with a spokeswoman on Wednesday night’s NPR news, says that Iraq and Sadam are connected with last week’s terror raids in NYC and Washington. AEI appears to be your standard Washington based think tank and lobbying outfit with an inclination toward a conservative view of the world. The former Speaker of the House is one of 50 “scholars” operation under their umbrella.
The question is do these people have any credibility on a matter like this. Do they have any particular ax to grind? Do they point at Iraq because they know something or is Iraq just first on their list of usual suspects when trouble pops up in the Middle East? Do they have their own sources of information, or access to information from the government that is not given to the public?
Is there any reason to think that Iraq is particularly culpable in this thing?