[SoFloFreeper]

I do not recall a big linkage being made between Saddam and Al Qaeda...some of a link, but not a major one. Is my recollection faulty?

[Carry_Okie]

Maybe the MSM should ask Clinton appointee and CIA Director, James Woolsey, if Iraqi agents ever perpetrated an act of terrorism against the US. Here's what he says:

"This fascinating product of Jayna Davis's near-decade of brave, thorough, and dogged investigative reporting effectively shifts the burden of proof to those who would still contend that McVeigh and Nichols executed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing without the support of a group or groups from the Middle East."

[Alter Kaker]

The Pentagon manipulated Intel? I guess I'm going to be buying strictly AMD, IBM and Freescale from now on. Screw Intel.

[Robert Lomax]

OK, and the DHS OIG lied to congress.

[NavyCanDo]

I would agree it is difficult to pin down Iraq as being behind 9/11 as an active participant - BUT How quickly we forget the anthrax attacks beginning in October 2001. Antrax was found at NBC News, Microsoft, ABC News, CBS News, The New York Post, governor Pataki's office, Tom Daschle office, and in off-site mail rooms of the CIA and the Whitehouse. A total of eighteen people were infected;five would die.

It was written, "The September 11 attacks had broken the country's heart; anthrax shook its nerve."

And who do we know that had a history of using anthrax? Saddam Hussein had produced arsenals of anthrax. Might he have shared it with Osama bin Laden or other terror cells in the U.S.?

Czech intelligence claimed to have observed a meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001. Let me say that again "Czech intelligence" not the Pentagon.

If bin Laden or the Iraqis inside the United States could send death through the mail, what else might they do? Yes Iraq was a threat and I will back up our actions to the end.

[DrewsDad]

I ask my lib friends if we were justified in taking out the Taleban. If they say no, they are a lost cause. If they say yes, then I ask why and will get an answer such as because they supported Al Qaeda which attacked us.

Then I ask them if the British were justified in their action against the Taleban. They will usually say yes, because they are our allies and lost some countrymen in the World Trade Center attacks.

Then I ask them, if Saddam openly funded terrorists attacks($25K to families of homicide bombers) to kill innocent Israeli(our allies)civilians including some of our own countrymen, then why are we not justified in taking action against Saddam.

Then they clamp their hands over their ears and start chanting no blood for oil.

[umgud]

The Pentagon has confirmed today that Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and al Zawahri have been captured and are being held at an undisclosed location.

NOAA scientist have issued a press release today claiming they have found a simple low cost solution to global warming (rumored to have been assisted by algore).

Greek officials report that Natalie Holloway has been found living on a local oil magnate’s yacht.

A UFO has crashed near Ft Wayne Utah, the alien occupants are alive and being cared for by Air Force personnel.

We’ll have these and other stories, but first, out top story; New evidence has come to light that strongly suggests that Bush did in fact lie about WMD’s!

I’m Chris Matthews, let’s play Hardball.

[jveritas]

How many regimes do we know that met with Osama Bin Laden? The answer is THREE and NONE OTHER. The Taliban, The Sudanese government, and yes Saddam regime. The Iraqi intelligence per the authorization of Saddam met with Bin Lade in in Sudan in 1995.

Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600579/posts

[jpl]

Here's some intel that was found right at the scene of the crime:

[Paradox]

I do not recall a big linkage being made between Saddam and Al Qaeda...some of a link, but not a major one. Is my recollection faulty?

Some vague links, but nothing really hard. I never considered that a reason for going to war.

[Sword_Svalbardt]

If I remember correctly, the press lauded the Pentagon for indicating Saddam did not want to surrender power to the religious Fiefdom Al Aqaeda was attempting to garner.

Now it seems to me the left is using the media to try and maneuver itself out of a fight over in Iraq. Apparently, and this is my observation. Our heroes on the left, who are SO endeared to looking out for our interests are interested in having a fight here.

Maybe the left will decide to open their arms and embrace a weapon vice embracing themselves before a crowd or a mirror let alone a camera.

SS

[RasterMaster]

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.

-- 1998 US Grand Jury indictment of Usama bin Laden

[LM_Guy]

The DOD Inspector Generals Office is not a democratic left wing group.

All of you who want to attack this article need to wake up !

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .Two people familiar with the findings discussed the main points and some details Thursday on condition they not be identified.]

Two people who work for that bloated hack Levin.

[aculeus]

How do you like your Dem overlords now?

[faq]

It's amazing what difference a headline can make:

Pentagon: Pre-War Intelligence Was Legit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781742/posts

[Paved Paradise]

Since I read the headline so fast and they've been the hottest commodity of late, I mistakenly thought it said "Penguin Manipulated Intel."

[rjp2005]

I have to say something here, because this is really hilarious.

The writer took a story that officially exonerates Feith and slanted it completely towards Levin's agenda. He even led with Levin's own interpretation of the report!! That is hilarious.

Tell me was damning about Feith's work? Where is this in the content of the article?

[Froufrou]

" Is my recollection faulty? "

I don't think so. IIRC, any link came as the result of Saddam's failing to cooperation with UN inspections at just about the same time.

[Cyclopean Squid]

There were claims of a linkage. And in fact some FReepers continued to stress the point by accumulating evidence of al-Qaeda/Saddam alliance through stories published by the MSM in the late 90s through the beginning of the war.