[wagglebee]

It's about time Bush started fighting back, he needs to make sure this is on the front page of every paper in the country.

[technomage]

If true, the documents represent a bombshell finding that shatters the claims of Iraq war critics who have maintained for three years that Saddam Hussein had no connection whatsoever to Islamic terrorism.

Let's just wait and see how this plays out.

[Voltage]

Bush is going to have to speak about this himself, the left wing newspapers (which is most of them) will ignore the story.

He needs to detail it in the State of the Union.

[neodad]

MSM: Nothing to see here, move on.

[gondramB]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/550kmbzd.asp

Here's the original article.. it sounds like only summaries have been released

>>ON NOVEMBER 17, 2005, Michigan representative Pete Hoekstra wrote to John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence. Hoekstra is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He provided Negroponte a list of 40 documents recovered in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan and asked to see them. The documents were translated or summarized, given titles by intelligence analysts in the field, and entered into a government database known as HARMONY. Most of them are unclassified.<<

[Cicero]

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it . . . .

Is the New York Times likely to print this story? The Washington Post?

Will NBC,CBS,ABC,CNN,MSNBC go with it in prime time news? Will even the new, improved Fox News go with it?

Are the Democrats likely to admit that they have mud all over their faces? Will Pinch Sulzberger appear in the middle of Times Square beating his breast and shouting "Mea culpa!"

I doubt it.

[Mike Darancette]

More intriguing still is the documentation on Salman Pak - a camp previously described by Iraqi defectors as the location of airline hijacking dress rehearsals that bear a striking resemblance to what took place on 9/11.

The hijack training stuff is really old I remember the picture of a 727 (I think) that they used for hijack training. The democrats said the plane was for training stewardesses.

[ErnBatavia]

he needs to make sure this is on the front page of every paper in the country

Maybe it's just me being cynical, but has ANYTHING from Newsmax come close to approaching a "front page" scoop?

[Dan Evans]

I wonder why this is just now coming out?

[jveritas]

The administration must go into a PR blitz to make these very important facts very well known to the public.

[smoothsailing]

The old media will ignore it as long as they can. It's up to the new media (us included) to get the story out.

[jazusamo]

Today there have been different news sources picking up this story. If it's true, which it sounds like it is, it will be hard for the MSM to ignore it. This could be the breakthrough that tubes the nay sayers.

[Darkwolf377]

Bush should put this in the State of the Union speech, as the damning proof that we should have gone in, and use that as an reintroduction of his plan for pulling out ONLY when Iraq can stand on its own two feet. The releasing of this data during that speech will gain huge publicity, whether the libs like it or not.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will respond thusly: "Once again, the President has chosen to spin and distract from the lack of WMD."

[redgirlinabluestate]

Finally! I was always wondering why the Admin allowed the MSM and the Libs to characterize the war in Iraq as all about WMD's when Bush in the "Bush Doctrine" clearly stated that the War on Terror included going after anyone who financed, harbored, supported or trained terrorists and Saddam did all of the above. I hope this will be one of the highlights of the State of the Union Address and gets us back on track.

[doug from upland]

Scream this from the rooftops.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

What took them so long?

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, don't think this will qwell the leftist rants. There's always the fall-back, we supplied Hussain and liked him while he was our tyrant. Course there's no truth in that either, but that doesn't matter.

We helped balance Hussain against Iran in their war, hoping both sides would waste resources and neither would win. The leftists think what was worse than what happened on 09/11 after that plan had long since it's course.

This is a great find. As long as thinking people are made aware of it, the left can wallow in whatever they like and it won't much matter.

[SunkenCiv]

Weird that this comes up now, because the psychic network of the left wing proclaimed that there was no such connection.

[gov_bean_ counter]

If I read the article correctly, briefings never got down to the Senate and House Intel committees. Just NSA and senior Defense Department officials. Interesting.

[Gribbles141]

Definitely, all of this needs to be talked about during the State of the Union. But Bush should really get crazy this year a Pre-SOTU show where Bon Jovi opens for the Pres.

Come on, the Pres is down.

[smoothsailing]

The SOTU is a good way for President Bush to claim ownership of this story.

But remember, FOXnews just recently did that one hour special on the good news coming out of Iraq, with Greg Palkot.

I see no reason why they wouldn't want to tackle this in a similar fashion.