Not this guy:
Posted on 03/24/2006 2:08:33 PM PST by pissant
CAIRO, Egypt - A former Democratic senator and 9/11 commissioner says a recently declassified Iraqi account of a 1995 meeting between Osama bin Laden and a senior Iraqi envoy presents a "significant set of facts," and shows a more detailed collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
In an interview yesterday, the current president of the New School University, Bob Kerrey, was careful to say that new documents translated last night by ABC News did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Nonetheless, the former senator from Nebraska said that the new document shows that "Saddam was a significant enemy of the United States." Mr. Kerrey said he believed America's understanding of the deposed tyrant's relationship with Al Qaeda would become much deeper as more captured Iraqi documents and audiotapes are disclosed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Bingo! Among other things, I'm sure.
The evidence has been out there for a decade or more, though this new stuff is even more conclusive.
People who get their news from CNN, the NY Times, or DU still don't know these facts. In their mind, that makes them smarter.
Great process (tangible in certain aspects) is going to continue to be made as well over the next 7 months in the GWOT -
Bad time to be a terrorist as well as a Democrat.
Those "other things" include that one of the biggest reasons for intelligence failures sat on the commission.
This is only the tip of the iceberg that will come out of these documents and the MSM will be forced into reporting on them, IMHO.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I really want to send this stuff to my friends from college who ever so strongly believed that Saddam and bin Laden had NOTHING in common and would never THINK of working together.
But after winning so many elections, why should I be a sore winner?
Well, the Sun is a small time paper. Can't afford word check. LOL
Not this guy:
Yes, the infamous "Gore-Lick".
CBS will probably come up with a document showing Bush gave his calling card to an Iraqi intelligence agent so Iraq could call Osama.
Yea, that's the ticket.
Awwww, go ahead and make their day. Will be fun to get them in a dither.
Rove Make Him Do It!!!
Make = Made (sheesh)
The 9/11 Commission and its staff, aided and abetted by their fawning fans in the establishment press, did their level best to bury, marginalize and dilute any suggestion that Iraq and al Qaeda had a meaningful relationship. After all, the lack of a tie to the terrorists would have meant a lack of a rationale to extend the war on terror to Iraq, which would please war opponents, make the Bush administration appear foolish, and, in general, help the Kerry campaign. We talked about it here while it was happening back in summer 2004 (see, e.g., here and here). ...The linked articles ("here" and "here" above) are:Well, well, well. It looks like the Iraq intel files may be starting to change perceptions. 9/11 Commission Bob Kerrey, for one, is certainly singing a different tune according to todays NYSun:
The new documents suggest that the 9/11 commission's final conclusion in 2004, that there were no "operational" ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, may need to be reexamined in light of the recently captured documents.http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_03_19_corner-archive.asp#093305
The 9/11 Commission raises more questions than it answers and
The newspaper of record withholds Iraq/Qaeda connection evidence
Both articles are from 2004, and the one that knocks the NYT is the better one of the two, IMO.
This is what happens when you use un-truths and deception to reach your goal.
It would have been better for them if they had never brought it up in the first place.
Doesn't matter if the MSM runs the story. Everybody knows, you get the real news online. You don't have to accept one point of view, you can shop around and compare....see what makes sense.
The "entertainment networks" (ABC, CBS, NBC) will have to bow out of their money-losing news operations. It won't happen soon, but the erosion is already showing and, at some point, the bean counters are going to have to start raising red flags.
The entire lib-dem establishment is so deeply saddened that this story will never see the front page of the NYT or the WashPost. This is definitely one of those stories that's not fit for the drive-by media to print.
People that rely on the MSM are almost universally ignorant of the facts, and a vast majority of them are stupid as well.
Might Bush and Cheney been responsible for the delay in getting this stuff released? Machiavellian minds want to know.
I wonder if he receives unsolicited bids from undertakers.
I saw the APs first stab at it was an excerpt from the document where Saddam says he has no WMDs. They ignored the rest of the document that contradicts himself. Pathetic.
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