[Uncle Bill]

Safire: Advance the Story
"For years, U.S. officials kept mum about the duplicity of Saudi Arabia in financing anti-U.S. incitement while professing to be a U.S. ally. But because The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, the oldest investigative reporter alive, held his ear trumpet to our ultra-secret Big Ear, we now have telephone intercepts between Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and his father, the defense minister. The Saudis never have been on our side in the war on terror — which our leaders have long known but most Americans did not.

What about a connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq's Saddam Hussein? Because the Scowcroft set at the National Security Council is still in denial about its blunder a decade ago that permitted Saddam to stay in power, the C.I.A. professes to see no collaboration in Baghdad."

Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary?

The Family That Preys Together

Bush, Bahrain crown prince swap pledges of support

US 'risks making Ben Laden a hero' in Bahrain

[bloggerjohn]

I don't see how it was Scowcroft who didn't topple Saddam. We had his Republican Guard in our mitts and just who makes decisions anyway? The buck stops here. The General is responsible for his troops. George Bush Sr. was the boss, and as former CIA head he surely couldn't profess ignorance. I will Never understand why we let the Republican Guard go. I was puzzled then; I am puzzled now. If you have an explanation why Bush senior made that decision, be my guest. But don't blame it on flunkies. He was the man.