ABCNews: New Documents from Saddam Hussein's Archives Discuss Bin Laden, WMDs

ABC News International ^ | March 17, 2006 | staff

[marvlus]

I love that Editor's Note. Did they really have to add that? Sheesh. It's obvious what side they are on.

The Dan Rather/Mary Mapes fraud letter deal has them running scared!

[6SJ7]

Editor's Note: ~snip~ this document is of limited evidentiary value

It is of limited evidentiary value only for the MSM, where the value of everything is measured by whether it hurts Pres. Bush.

[Allegra]

Excellent!

The noose is tightening...

[Fresh Wind]

It's easy to be confident when you have an ace in the hole!

[rod1]

The ract that ABC even shows it and then tries to discredit the information is a big step forward. it means they fell they can't igore it anymore with the blogspehere erupting. Now that it has been laid out by MSM outlets, the debate can REALLY begin.

[zip]

ping

[Loyal Buckeye]

I love that Editor's Note.

They are just following journalistic standards, like they always do.

[Coop]

The controversial claim that Osama bin Laden was cooperating with Saddam Hussein is an ongoing matter of intense debate.

Really? But the Democrats and media keep telling us that there's no evidence of any such relationship. What's to debate?

[bcsco]

"I love that Editor's Note. Did they really have to add that? Sheesh. It's obvious what side they are on."

No different than all the unnamed sources the MSM uses every day, is it. The hypocrisy of it all!

[reformedliberal]

"Limited evidentiary value...."

They are going to insist these all be treated according to rules of US criminal law, as promulgated by defense bar.

What does anyone expect? Yesterday, after it was reported that there were no casualties from Op Swarmer, we had David Gregory ranting about "this great bloody battle". I haven't even been able to escape to History or Discovery Channel. It seems at least once in every program, there is a gratuitous contemporary political comment.

At least the docs are getting attention.

[mewzilla]

I've got a question: If the MSM finds anything really incendiary further linking AQ to Saddamn and/or WMD, will they release the info? Or will they spike it?

[Kozak]

Meanwhile " unnamed administration sources( ie the janitor in the WH basement)" are taken as purveyors of absolute fact.

[trebb]

Maybe Bush has seemed confident all along that history would vindicate him because Bush has been confident all along that history would vindicate him.

I don't think he worried what history might do to his legacy - he's one of the few that will do what he thinks is right no matter what idiots might think. Only a fool would have thought that Iraq didn't have WMDs and ties to the major terror organizations of the world. Sometimes glomming the overall picture gives you overwhelming proof of a situation, even if you can't get "legally binding" proof. The Dims want to use a court-like system (you know, like the system that let O.J. go) and the Prez wants to protect us and is willing to put his reputation on the line to close the loopholes.

[buck61]

It's gonna get good.
Trust me on this.
If there are tapes of these meetings with sound of every word spoken in English, the MSM will not touch it. The print press will avoid writing on the WMD no matter the proof.
The group of Bush haters will try justifying or debunking
all of these documents.
Maybe President Bush has known about these doc. all along
and, new in the end he would be justified in going to war with Iraq. If he knew why would he not comment on them is my question? I don't understand the way the President works when it comes to talking to the American public.

[Quilla]

There's where I originally found the picture via littlegreenfootballs. Here's another one:

I keep them both on my FR profile page for easy access.

[PigRigger]

If he knew why would he not comment on them is my question?

The best answer I've heard to date is that besides embarrassing his opponents, it will embarrass a lot of our so called allies as well.....

[IrishMike]

What WMD's ?

[Quilla]

If he knew why would he not comment on them is my question?

There has also been speculation that President Bush knows approximately (or exactly) where Saddam's WMD's were hidden (and by whom - Russia, most likely). He's keeping quiet to prevent insurgents, al Qaeda, and other unsavory types from getting their hands on them.

[Ngamatapouri]

a short lived scandal in France last year revealed that the Presidents household used $36,000 of fresh fruit a day,

[Wristpin]

The French stopped participating in No Fly Zone enforcement sometime in 1998. Shortly after the payola memo. Huh?