The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [3] reported, "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated." Will Bush administration officials and other Republican politicians now stop saying there's a connection? "Hell no!" replied one official, when asked whether Dick Cheney [4] would retract his recent statement [5] that Saddam Hussein had "long established ties with al Qaeda." George Bush maintained [6], "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." House GOP members [7] are also sticking to their story. "The common link is that they hate America [8]," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. According to Rep. Chris Shays, al Qaeda and Iraq are "like peas in a pod." Rep. Dana Rohrabacher did admit, in response to a question about the wisdom of hyping a highly conjectural Osama bin Laden - Saddam Hussein link, "Was it a well-thought out sales pitch [9]? Probably not."