Al Qaeda, Saddam

The Washington Times ^ | April 26, 2006 | Helle Dale

[neverdem]

    Bad news about Iraq is not hard to come by in current media coverage. Terrorist attacks on Iraqi citizens and U.S.troops are recorded day by day. Mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi security forces leaps to the headlines. Calls for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation are gathering steam among Democrats on Capitol Hill, with Congress set to debate the issue next week.

    When it comes to any good news out of Iraq, the liberal media are negligent or simply silent. And if there is new information corroborating the reasons the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein in the first place, it is of no consequence to the media, which long ago decided that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs were a figment of President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's fevered imaginations. And of course, in their view, there's no shred of evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. All of which will surely go down in journalistic annals of disgrace.

    Fortunately, much like that of the Nazis, Saddam's regime was one of recordkeepers. Piles and piles of its intelligence documents have been captured by U.S. forces, but have until recently been classified in bulk. Two million documents were released in February by the U.S. government, and of them, only some 5 percent , or 100,000, have been translated. Even so, the evidence that's already emerging of Saddam's dealings with...

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    Other incriminating information has been available for a long time, but remains conveniently ignored, for instance that al Qaeda and Saddam were working together in Sudan to produce chemical weapons of mass destruction. It will be recalled that the Clinton administration controversially bombed a pharmaceutical factory, suspected of producing nerve gas, in retaliation for the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

[neverdem]

It's hard to imagine the bent one being vindicated about anything. How were we cursed with such a lame stream media?

[Pistolshot]

Well, the lame stream media has to make the bent one look good so that when the real truth comes out they can spin it so Bubba has his 'legacy' and Bush is just carrying out 'his' program on terrorism.

I am gagging as I write this.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

They want us to fail in Iraq.

Their hatred for our President is at a very unhealthy level.

[neverdem]

Ping

[takeemout]

yes, it is very interesting to see how the media portrays Blair now. Back when Sidney Blumenthal said he was England's Bill Clinton, the media showered him with accolades and loved him. Now that he is a partner with Bush, he is eeeeeeee-vil, vile, and unworthy of being a leader.

[driftless]

I've yet to read anything or see anything aired about these documents on any of the Big Media outlets. You would think that the release of these docs, which has the most sensational revelations since the wars start, would have been front page fodder and opening news segments on the alphabet news shows for the last three weeks. You would be wrong.

Big Media has decided to keep this Bush-validating news hidden for obvious reasons. You can still read lib letters-to-the-editor in my local lib rag where lib morons still claim that there was no link between Hussein and Al-Qaeda. That is why I believe that our "beloved" media is as big an enemy as the Islamo-fascist terrorists of which these documents conclusively prove Hussein was one of.

[prairiebreeze]

Fortunately, much like that of the Nazis, Saddam's regime was one of recordkeepers. Piles and piles of its intelligence documents have been captured by U.S. forces, but have until recently been classified in bulk. Two million documents were released in February by the U.S. government, and of them, only some 5 percent , or 100,000, have been translated. Even so, the evidence that's already emerging of Saddam's dealings with...

ping!!

[prairiebreeze]

Their hatred for our President and our country is at a very unhealthy level.

There, I adjusted it some. Your first statement is accurate too.

[hawkaw]

This was a good editorial.

[Coop]

Please read

[Coop]

It's moving at glacial speed, but at least it [the truth] is moving.

[eyespysomething]

Thanks for the pings, PrairieBreeze and neverdem!

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[Calpernia]

When it comes to any good news out of Iraq, the liberal media are negligent or simply silent. And if there is new information corroborating the reasons the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein in the first place, it is of no consequence to the media, which long ago decided that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs were a figment of President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's fevered imaginations. And of course, in their view, there's no shred of evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. All of which will surely go down in journalistic annals of disgrace.

[Calpernia]

>>>How were we cursed with such a lame stream media?


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320747/posts
George Soros, Media Connections - Bump List

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the ping. Excellent oped piece, at least some people like Dale get it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book, that explains much of the WHY BUSH and ?AMERICA is ATTACKED:

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The conclusion of the Times Editorial is right on:

The fact that a large slice of the media and intelligence community have managed to overlook these connections, should not be a reason to allow them to ignore them any further. Documents have to be translated and authenticated with all due speed. November's mid-term election will be yet another referendum on the U.S. presence in Iraq. The American people should demand an accounting of all the facts before they vote.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Allegra]

They want us to fail in Iraq.

We won't.

Despite the relentless attempts by the media and the liberals to screw it up.