Posted on 07/29/2007 3:18:44 PM PDT by visitor
"So when George W. Bush rewrote history the other day by saying that ''al-Qaeda terrorists killed Americans on 9/11 (and) they're fighting us in Iraq,'' the tendency is to duly note that the president is not telling the truth - there is no evidence whatsoever that al-Qaeda in Iraq, which didn't exist at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, takes orders from Osama bin Laden - and then move on. Hey, at least it's just talk. At least he didn't invade Iran or Pakistan. Yet."
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A couple of weeks ago on a Friday before Rush took some time off a caller said that NPR (!) before 911 had run a story about how Osama showed up at a terrorist camp "graduation" in Iran.
That's to the best of my recollection, but it's a lead I'd run down.
A few seeconds of effort turned up this...
Al Qaeda ,
Which from all indications existed since 1989...
Was it a letter to the editor, and editorial, or what?
Where to start with someone so intent on distortion?Really why try? We were attacked by Islamic radicals.Engage and kill Islamic radicals where ever they are found.
They’re apparently not interested in any manner of the truth and it would be pointless to refute them because they have blinders on. They ae incapable of recognizing the truth.
The statement quotes the President and then puts words in his mouth. Al Qeada did plan and execute the 9-11 attack and Al Qeada is now in Iraq. The writer says that Bush said Al Qeada in Iraq participated in 9-11. If I read that quote correctly and it’s what Bush actually said you don’t need an article to refute him. Just call him the lying scumbag that he is.
Oh, by the way, there is ample evidence recently that Al Qeada in Iraq is not the home grown terrorist organization the writer implies. From as far back as a few years ago there were published letters by the Al Qeada leader in Iraq to Osama Bin Laden.
Do you have a link to a transcript showing that GWB actually said that? There is your refutation. He is consistently “misquoted” by the left (and that is being kind, most of the time they outright lie about what he said).
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If you read a little further in that link you find this:
Osama bin Laden first took interest in Iraq when the country invaded Kuwait in 1990, raising concerns the secular Baathist government of Iraq might next set its sights on Saudi Arabia, homeland of bin Laden and Islam itself. In a letter sent to King Fahd, he offered to send an army of mujahedeen to defend Saudi Arabia, but the offer was rebuffed.[77] During the Gulf War, the organization’s interests became split between outrage at the intervention of the United Nations in the region and hatred of Saddam Hussein’s secular government.
Links between Saddam’s regime and al-Qaeda, as claimed by the Bush Administration (which formed a crucial part of the WMD justification for the Iraq invasion), were non-existent or exaggerated, according to the report of both the United States Government’s 9/11 Commission[78] and the Pentagon;
[79] despite these conclusions, Vice President Dick Cheney has continued to publicly assert an Iraqi–al-Qaeda link.[80] Recently, the US has acknowledged that the role of al-Qaeda in post-invasion violence in Iraq was overstated.[81] The US also claimed that al-Qaeda was in contact with the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-islam from its inception in 1999; however, Ansar al-islam’s founder, Mullah Krekar, has staunchly denied any such link.
Doesn’t bolster his argument.
It is Wikipedia after all.
Changing the mind of the letter-writer may accomplish nothing (and get you all muddy) but rebutting the letter for the benefit of the other readers of the paper probably makes the exercise worthwhile.
Which newspaper is this?
Do you have a link to the article?
Why, in 1999, were servicemen and women who were going to the mideast required to have anthrax shots if there was no threat from WMDs?
alqauda in iraq zarqawi received a letter from zawahiri in 2004 or 2005 zarqawi founded al qaeda in iraq and swore allegiance to osama.
Actually this is quite an admission on their part...that Al Qaida exists in Iraq...I’ve seen even that denied.
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