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Hard Evidence Finally Links Saddam Hussein's Iraq to 9/11 - Game. Set. Match.
WSJ, NewsMax, Insight Magazine ^ | 5/27/2004 | SunStar

Posted on 05/27/2004 11:37:06 AM PDT by SunStar

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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

What a stupid comment. Why don't you tell everybody HOW Bush could have "struck back immediately after 9/11" when there were no forces available to do so?

Wave a magic wand? Throw some cruise missiles in Saddam's direction?

Anyone who understands military and political realities understands that Bush acted as soon as he could.


61 posted on 05/27/2004 12:35:17 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: FlipWilson

It hasn't. RATmedia has downplayed any links and will not publicize them now. Bush had to wait until there was sufficient proof positive that all of it could not be dismissed by the RATmedia.


62 posted on 05/27/2004 12:38:34 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Chunga
Um... I thought the sarcasm was obvious. But, after further review, I could absolutely envision those words coming from ALGore.

In fact, I would be surprised if I didn't hear them.

63 posted on 05/27/2004 12:39:57 PM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9
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To: FlipWilson

I read a pretty good response to your question earlier today and wish I could remember who posted it to give proper credit. Although much more eloquently put, the "nutshell" answer: the Administration is concerned that lawyers and relatives of 9-11 victims will sue and damage even further the weak economy of Iraq.


64 posted on 05/27/2004 12:40:07 PM PDT by Quilla (God bless America, President George W. Bush, our brave troops, and Freepers everywhere.)
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To: Triple

BUMP! YEA! LET THE ROPE-A-DOPE BEGIN!!!


65 posted on 05/27/2004 12:41:37 PM PDT by Bobbisox (And the Rope-a-Dope Begins!)
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To: My2Cents
The headline in the NYT would be, "BUSH HIDES EVIDENCE OF SADDAM TERROR LINKS; USES INFO FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES,"

Subheading: "WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT"

66 posted on 05/27/2004 12:42:27 PM PDT by kevkrom (The John Kerry Songbook: www.imakrom.com/kerrysongs)
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To: SunStar

Bump and a bookmark!


67 posted on 05/27/2004 12:45:25 PM PDT by RottiBiz (Help end Freepathons -- become a Monthly Donor.)
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To: kevkrom

Blimp!!!


68 posted on 05/27/2004 12:45:31 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit (music, music and more music)
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To: SunStar

So what! It's a sure bet that Saddam, nor Osama, ever put a pair of panties on someone's head. Quit trying to deflect from the real issues. /sarcasm


69 posted on 05/27/2004 12:46:10 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Integrityrocks
Isn't that just amazing... I've never seen a political party want power so bad that they honestly and truely are willing to sacrifice our nation to obtain it. The lies that spew forth from their "possessed" beings."

Agree!!!

70 posted on 05/27/2004 12:46:29 PM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: FlipWilson
Ever thought about not tipping your hand too soon in a card game? Your sure to lose if you do.

I wouldn't let out much if I was in charge and tracking the terrorist bastards. No need to let them know ahead of time we know the who, when, and where.

71 posted on 05/27/2004 12:54:30 PM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: FlipWilson
Short answer: Lawyers.

Long answer:

"The administration does not want the victims of Sept. 11 interfering with its foreign policy," says Peter M. Leitner, director of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice (WCPJ). Leitner says the Bush administration may be concerned that if other victims of the Sept. 11 attacks also filed lawsuits and won civil-damage awards it would reduce Iraqi resources that the administration wants to use to rebuild the country. Leitner and others say this explains Bush's reticence at this time to report the convincing evidence linking Saddam and al-Qaeda that has been collected by U.S. investigators and private organizations seeking damages. "The [Bush] administration is intentionally changing the topic," claims Leitner, and sidestepping the issue that "Iraq has been in a proxy war against the U.S. for years and has used al-Qaeda in that war against the United States."

Source

My theory has been all along that they were waiting to hand power over to the Iraqis before letting this info out due to possible lawsuits against Iraq. Maybe they reassessed the situation and feel comfortable releasing this now. Any lawyer that filed a suit now would be laughed out of court as the Iraqis were victims of Saddam themselves and cannot be held responsible for his past transgressions.

72 posted on 05/27/2004 12:54:34 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: FlipWilson
The real question I have is. . .why has the administration been so adamant in dismissing that Saddam had a direct connection to the 9/11 attacks? Even more important, why has the administration been so adamant in dismissing that Saddam had ANY connection, however tangential, to the 9/11 attacks?

That is an excellent question. Insight Magazine attempts to answer it:

(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991676/posts)

Insiders say the failure to assign responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks to Iraq, Afghanistan or any other nation-state is intentional. "The administration does not want the victims of Sept. 11 interfering with its foreign policy," says Peter M. Leitner, director of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice (WCPJ). The WCPJ is coordinating a lawsuit on behalf of the family of John Patrick O'Neill Sr., a former top FBI counterterrorism official who had become director of security for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shortly before Sept. 11, 2001. O'Neill was killed in the World Trade Center as a result of the attacks.

Leitner tells Insight, "This administration has been absolutely heroic in the war on terror and has done more than any other administration to fight terrorism, but they have been deliberately ambiguous" about Iraq's involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. "The civil suits are a way of transferring power to the American people, to seek justice and to fight terrorism by depriving them of financial resources," Leitner says. The O'Neill lawsuit seeks more than $1 billion in damages from the Republic of Iraq and a host of other defendants ranging from the known members of al-Qaeda to those the lawsuit names as coconspirators in money laundering and as providers of support for terrorist operations, including the shadowy al-Taqwa group and Nada Management.

Leitner says the Bush administration may be concerned that if other victims of the Sept. 11 attacks also filed lawsuits and won civil-damage awards it would reduce Iraqi resources that the administration wants to use to rebuild the country. Leitner and others say this explains Bush's reticence at this time to report the convincing evidence linking Saddam and al-Qaeda that has been collected by U.S. investigators and private organizations seeking damages. "The [Bush] administration is intentionally changing the topic," claims Leitner, and sidestepping the issue that "Iraq has been in a proxy war against the U.S. for years and has used al-Qaeda in that war against the United States."

73 posted on 05/27/2004 12:57:17 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Quilla

See #72...I posted the response there. I have been supporting this theory ever since that article came out in Sep '03.


74 posted on 05/27/2004 12:57:18 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Hatteras

"That ees naht mah dahg!"


75 posted on 05/27/2004 12:58:38 PM PDT by Redbob (still hoping for the "self-illuminating glass-bottomed parking lot" solution to the Iraq problem)
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To: ravingnutter; FlipWilson

It was ravingnutter's post I was referring to in my reply #64. Good answer, ravingnutter.


76 posted on 05/27/2004 12:58:39 PM PDT by Quilla (God bless America, President George W. Bush, our brave troops, and Freepers everywhere.)
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To: beelzepug
"May ah use your fune?"

Fune?
Deed you say "Fune?"

77 posted on 05/27/2004 1:00:05 PM PDT by Redbob (still hoping for the "self-illuminating glass-bottomed parking lot" solution to the Iraq problem)
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To: ravingnutter

You'er fast! I'll catch up soon, I hope. ;-)


78 posted on 05/27/2004 1:00:47 PM PDT by Quilla (God bless America, President George W. Bush, our brave troops, and Freepers everywhere.)
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To: Quilla

Please, you'er = you're.


79 posted on 05/27/2004 1:01:14 PM PDT by Quilla (God bless America, President George W. Bush, our brave troops, and Freepers everywhere.)
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This is series....and hugh!!!!


80 posted on 05/27/2004 1:02:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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