Yet one of the most interesting things to note about Feith's memo is that it covers only a fraction of the evidence that will eventually be available to document the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida. For one thing, both Hussein and bin Laden were desperate to keep their co-operation secret.
Feith's memo is best viewed as an outline of the relationship. It contains the highlights, but it is far from exhaustive.
But there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Hussein's Iraq worked with bin Laden and al-Qa'ida to plot against Americans.

Of 97 soldiers who were drug-tested after a raid on Darwin's Robertson Barracks last month, no fewer than 47 – almost half – had tested positive for party drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines. It was a shocking result – even allowing for the fact the tests were targeted, not random.

At one point Belize (Jeffrey Wright), Cohn's black gay nurse, complains that the "white cracker who wrote the national anthem" set the word "free" to "a note so high nobody could reach it." But Mr. Kushner does reach it here, and it is piercing.