Saddam was not in league with the terrorists?
#1. harboring Abu Nidal
#2. harboring Abu Abbas
#3. harboring Abdul Rahmn Yasin (1993 WTC bomber)
#4. Paying the families of suicide bombers in Israel/Palestine
#5. Zarqawi being treated in Baghdad for his wounds suffered in Afghanistan and then setting up shop in the city months before the war started in Iraq.
#6. harboring Khala Khadr al-Salahat, Pan Am 103 bomber
#7. Even the 9/11 commission says Iraq had a decade-long list of meetings with Al Qaeda. Whether they eventually cooperated together we don;t know, but we do know they had lost of meetings. I doubt they were discussing crop rotation.
etc. etc.
Oh by the way, every one of these things I listed were in violation of UN Resolution 687 and therefore were grounds to resume hostilities.