[Just mythoughts]

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[ikez78]

Stephen Hayes PING

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for YOUR work...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702368/posts

[stephenjohnbanker]

Great job!

B U M P

[January24th]

"The purpose of this section is to assess the accuracy of the Intelligence Community's prewar analysis on links between the regime of Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda using information collected since Operation Iraqi Freedom."

The obvious purpose is to distance themselves from their commitment to the war in Iraq so they can get re-elected. So they do a cursory comb-over on the bald truth and hope that Propecia Politics will cover the facts...and their own asses.

[TomGuy]

I found this article recently. It discusses some of the terrorist training, etc., that took place under Saddam in Salman Pak (Iraq).

Deroy Murdock article from 2003: The 9/11 Connection, What Salman Pak could reveal

Murdock quotes James Woolsey, President Clinton's CIA chief from 1993 to 1995: "I believe it is definitely more likely than not that some degree of common effort in the sense of aiding or abetting or conspiracy was involved here between Iraq and the al Qaeda," Woolsey said on March 3[, 2003].

[goldstategop]

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report was produced by liberal staff writers with a clear ideological axe to grind. From the evidence that was omitted, ignored, distorted and misrepresented in the report, it is clear there was an ongoing relationship between the Ba'athist regime and Al Qaeda. In fact, it is a relationship that continues to this very day. All we have for the report's tendentious and highly suspect claim that Saddam never had a relationship with much less than supported AQ is his own word. So the U.S Senate Intelligence Committee takes the word of a pathological psychopath in support of its preposterous theory that Saddam the secular dictator was opposed to the radical Islamofascist Osama Bin Laden. History begs to differ. We should leave the final and more revealing words on the subject to Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih:

And late last week, following the release of the Senate report, Barham Salih, deputy prime minister of Iraq, had this to say: "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." Salih continued: "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."

You won't find this anywhere in the Senate report since it contradicts the liberal staff writers' objective to create a halo around Saddam Hussein and to also advance the now discredited notion Iraq is NOT a central front in the War On Terror. The above facts will not make their way either into the Drive By Media. Some day, a full account of the relationship between the Saddam dictatorship and the terrorists it sponsored will be produced. As Stephen F. Hayes notes, given what we know about the Senate report, in view of its deficiencies and grave shortcomings, "is unlikely to merit even a footnote in [ such a future] history."

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[MHGinTN]

I wonder, could someone post the names on the Committee and the leaders of the two parties, chairman of the Committee? I smell Warner and McCain.

[WoodstockCat]

"Senate" and "Intelligence" in one sentence...any questions?

[cwb]

Thanks for the ping. These people make me sick. Even before 9/11 and Bush was elected, we have news stories of Saddam offering sanctuary to UBL. Clinton's own DOJ via a Federal Judge in New York unveiled a sealed indictment of UBL in 1998. The indictment, unsealed later that same year, stated among other things that "Al Qaeda reached an agreement with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons development."

Even putting aside the question of UBL and AQ, Saddam's Iraq was still a major supporter of terrorists around the world. According to a State Department report, the terrorists whom Hussein backed had killed or injured more than 3,500 civilians outside Iraq. From Abbas to Nidal to Hamas...to their affilate organizations (PLF, PLO, ANO, Islamic Jihad, etc), Saddam provided safe-haven to the most wanted terrorists in the world.

These reasons alone made the ouster of Saddam a legitimate cause, especially since Saddam was prohibited by the Gulf War Cease Fire and following UN resolutions from associating with terrorists. (U.N. Security Council Resolution 687 paragraph 32). The fact that some people continue to ignore and lie about these alliances just exposes how dangerous they are to this country's security.

[NCjim]

He was reluctant but the Devil made him do it... *g

[RoadTest]

I believe we have enemy moles in The Senate, called "Senators".

[MizSterious]

Thanks for this. The evidence is there and easily attained if someone is really interested in the truth--this group, with resources far beyond most armchair researchers, didn't consider it for only one possible reason: it didn't fit their agenda.

[Chaguito]

I'm about to turn 60, so I have a little bit of perspective. But I have to ask, "Is this the first time in history that our politicians have been so intent, in so many ways, on subverting the nation?" Or is it simply a matter that I can now read about it outside the normal news media?

In either case, it's depressing, since it is almost impossible to unseat an incumbent senator. What radical action can thwart these self-aggrandizing enemies of the people they "represent?"

[WV Mountain Mama]

So....the Senate says they have no intelligence? I can't argue with that. Being intelligent means one is able to learn and understand. Apparently they can do neither. They receive reports and lose them, read them and not understand what the report is about or just plain forget what the report said. They are unable to read the reports and apply the knowledge to what is going on around them, or apply cause and effect relationships. They are unable to distinguish fact from talking points or disclose the whole story.

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[musicman]

BTTT !!

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Why doesn't Bush refute this report?