There's no link between al Qaeda and Iraq.
Posted on 07/28/2004 10:09:20 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The report offered new details about the al-Qaeda-Iraq relationship and the commission also backtracked somewhat from an earlier staff report, which found no evidence of a "collaborative relationship."
In the final report, the phrase was modified to say, "no collaborative operational relationship." Adding the word "operational" was an important shift.
The panel found no proof that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's organization worked together to attack their common enemy, the United States. But the commission did find that the two had frequent contacts and a fairly well-developed relationship. There were Iraq-al-Qaeda ties.
Bush looked at the evidence of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq and saw a threat that needed to be eliminated. Administration critics looked at the same set of facts and said, "No big deal." To a great extent, the coming election is about which view most upheld the national interest.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortwayne.com ...
(I excerpted it, because I think we need to excerpt Knight Ridder newspapers)
Drip, drip, drip
BUmp
SEC. WOLFOWITZ: .how many people here have heard of Abdul Rahman Yassin, if you'd raise your hand? Abdul Rahman Yassin I mean, it's a well-informed audience. My
guess is that - I'll be generous - 20 percent of you have heard of him. He is the only fugitive, indicted fugitive, still at large from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was pulled off by the nephew and very close buddy of Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, the mastermind of 9/11. These are not separate
events. They were the same target. They were the same people. It would seem significant that one major figure in that event is still at large. It would seem
significant that he was harbored in Iraq by Iraqi intelligence for 10 years.
That's a fact. We don't know why.
We can debate the whys of it. But every time I've tried in the congressional testimony or elsewhere to say this seem to me like a real issue which, by the way,
Richard Clarke in his book, I think, devotes two sentences. The last draft I saw of the 9/11-commission report didn't even mention this man. It seems to me it's a
rather important subject. And every time you try to raise it, people say, "But there's no proof Saddam was involved in 9/11." Well, isn't it significant if he was harboring somebody who was involved in 1993 and the list goes on.
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040716-secdef1041.html]
Bill O’Reilly: Who’s sorry now?
EXCERPT:
At this point we have four independent sources that say there was no lying by President Bush and British Prime Minister Blair regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The 9-11 Commission, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Lord Butler’s British investigation and Vladimir Putin have all stated that the WMD intelligence was faulty, but the politicians did nothing untoward.
So what should be done with the people who accused Bush and Blair of intentionally lying to bring war to the world? Have you heard any of these folks apologize for their slander? I haven’t.
For the sake of argument, can you imagine if President Bush had ignored the CIA’s assertion that Saddam had anthrax and other deadly substances? Can you just picture what would have happened if Al Qaeda attacked America with deadly weapons acquired from Baghdad, and Bush had rejected intelligence reports about WMDs? My God! President Bush would have gone down in history as the most incompetent president of all time.
Every time I hear some extremist rant about presidential “lies,” I get furious. These people are putting all of us in danger. Many far left Web sites are simply out of control, spewing forth deceit and allegations that have no basis in fact whatsoever. Unfortunately, these people now have sympathy in the mainstream press and can get their libel widely distributed. Let me give you one example from personal experience.
It is all so dishonest and disheartening. The ultra-left fanatics will pretty much say and do anything to destroy those with whom they disagree. These people are hurting all Americans by obstructing the true terrorist danger we are facing today.
The lesson here is simple. Bush and Blair did not lie. And it’s far past time that clear-thinking Americans begin holding the true liars accountable. Our lives may depend on it.
Says Bagdad Bob!
A 'real deal twinky meal'!! I'm really, really going now!
There is even more in the Senate Intellegence Report.
In the section of the report, "Link to Terrorists", the Senate Intel report has 66 pages on Iraq links to terrorists in general -- and especially Al Qaeda. They show that Iraq trained Al Qaeda in chemical, biological, NUCLEAR weapons -- and -- bomb making from "1990 to present".
In addition, the report also covers Iraq having 100s of terrorist training camps for home grown Iraqi terrorist from "1996 to present" specifically dedicated to training to hit US and US interests.
Bookmarked BUMP!!!!
Saddam for Kerry is especially appropriate, because if Kerry had been President, Saddam would still be Iraq's "President"/Dictator, instead of sitting in a jail cell.
In the run-up to OIF Kerry and the fifth column (rats, propagandists claiming to be "media", corrupt foreign leaders for Kerry) worked to delay, to buy time for these weapons to be shuttled here and buried there.
Kerry's staff email to Iran (member of axis of evil in very good standing) promised to repair the relationships this administration damaged since September 11, 2001.
QED: Kerry is anti-American, global-socialist, a raving UNophile--in addition to cutting all weapons systems of note and seeking to gut (not just cut) our intelligence--
Kerry seeks at all times the defeat of America.
Absolutely right!
Great picture too.
Benedict Arnold was a war hero too, until he sold us out,
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