I LOVE how the same media which has accused our Vice President of being drunk with NO evidence makes sure to emphasize that Hussein said he wouldn't be involved. LOL!
OK, let's bring W up on charges for having his sons killed!
The bad thing about these tapes is that syntax will be lost in the translation. Clearly when taken in context he was saying that Iraq cannot be seen to be involved. Also said a State cannot do this. The MSM will have a field day cherry picking (to use one of their favorite expressions) these quotes.
That's not quite what was said, at least according to the translation I heard. That said the terrorism would not come from Iraq, not that Iraq would not he involved. I took that to mean that the blame would not be put onto Iraq.
I was under the impression that the MSM "edited" the interview and that Saddam Hussein spoke of WMDs and that Iraq would use them against the U.S.
This sentence, by which the MSM seems to set such great store, reveals that, at a minimum, Saddam had tapped into the emerging jihadi grapevine. It also shows, as do other portions of the taped conversations, that Saddam was telling his goons everything he thought they needed to know, but not necessarily everything that he knew. The MSM, desperately clinging to their mantra that there was "no connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda", may be comforted by the "fact" that Saddam tried to "warn the West" (I doubt that you'll find anyone in the Clinton or Bush Administrations who will acknowledge such a "warning"), but one wonders what operational details of future terrorist operations Saddam may have received, but not passed along.
Amazing that they actually try to tie this story to the publication of the Danish cartoons. These people are a trip.
If the news media is only going to report its own preferred version of the facts, it might as well go out of business.