Lee Hamilton, Democrat vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, yesterday: “I must say I hae trouble understanding the flack over this. The vice president is saying, I think, that there were connections between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s government. We don’t disagree with that. What we have said is what the governor just said, we don’t have any evidence of a cooperative, or a corroborative relationship between Saddam Hussein’s government and these al Qaeda operatives with regard to the attacks on the United States. So it seems to me that sharp difference that the press has drawn, the media has drawn, are not that apparent to me.”