The Perverted Logic of Dick Chaney

Dick Chaneys obsessive insistence that Iraq had WMDs and of Saddam's supposed connections with Al Qaeda deserves scrutiny.
His allegations has to raise questions about his mental state, if not his competence. A case in point is that of Abu Nidals presence in Iraq 2001-2002.
The person known as Abu Nidal was born Sabri Khalil al-Banna and later became a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah Party; also known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), Black June, Black September and others, which over time was responsible for attacks in 20 countries and the killing and injuring of over 900 people.
Abu Nidals motivation is complex and seems to be a result of paranoia, hate for Israel, as well as a desire for personal gain rather than for religious and/or political ideological reasons. The last attacks that are attributed to the ANO occurred in 1991 and 1994.
The most notorious and bold attacks by the ANO were the El Al airport counters in Vienna and Rome in 1985, which killed 18 and wounded 120.
Countries that Abu Nidal operated in and from were Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt. Abu Nidal entered Iraq the last time, reportedly using a fake Yemeni passport, sometime before or during 2001.
On August 16, 2002 he was "visited" by Saddams internal security force and Abu Nidal committed "suicide"--some claim he shot himself in the mouth, other reports are that he had four bullet holes in him, in any case Saddams forces weren't carrying a red carpet of welcome.
Dick Chaney has made a big case of Saddams complicity with terrorist groups such as Abu Nidal because Abu Nidal took up residence in Iraq. Using that logic you could say that Atta, one of the hijackers in the 9/11 attack was being harbored by the Bush administration because he lived for a time in the US and because the Republicans have a history of using terror as an instrument of political coercion.
Any "connection" between Abu Nidal and Al Qaeda would be like adding apples and oranges. Yes both indulged in senseless violent attacks but they did so for different reasons.
Hate can bring antagonists together for common cause, but the melding together of such diverse ideologies, such as Al Qaeda and the Abu Nidal organization, is very unlikely for many reasons.
Dick Chaneys super simplistic analysis also led to the "conclusion" that Saddam had, or was planning, a nuclear program; i.e., they use aluminum tubes to centrifuge uranium so that must mean aluminum tubes equals uranium centrifuges--never mind that other things use aluminum tubes, such as 81mm rockets. That the specifications for the aluminum tubes matched 81mm rockets and not centrifuges seemed to have passed right over Dicks head--conveniently.
Dick also "made" the case that Saddam was "financing" terrorists because he was donating money to families of suicide bombers whose homes were blown up by the Israelis in their effort to deter future bombings. Dick never mentioned the fact that the Saudis were also making like donations to the bombers families. Excluding such information is called "card stacking", in propaganda parlance.