This just in - from 1999

We weren't always so ignorant about the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. Back in the halcyon days of the Clinton administration, people knew a lot more, as this ABC News report on the relationship between Bin Ladin and Iraq demonstrates. (If you don't have or want Real Player, here's an audio-only MP3 version.) Recall that President Clinton sent a cruise missle into a Sudanese "pharmaceutical" factory in 1998; it was allegedly being used by Iraq and al Qaeda to develop chemical weapons. Bill and Hillary still remember, but most Democrats and many in the media seem to have forgotten. A much more detailed report about their relationship, by Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn, is here.

It's always fascinating what disappears down the "memory hole."

(Thanks to Roger Simon and Bill in DC.)