[MizSterious]

"What he has said is there is no link between Iraq and 9/11."

I'm in danger of sounding terribly Clintonian myself, but I note that the President always parses his words carefully on this particular subject. There might be an exact quote somewhere that states that "there is no link," but the ones I've read and heard say there is no evidence of a link. Might be that I'm a bit too picky, but frequently I notice him saying, often in the next breath, that he does believe there is an Iraqi-AlQaeda link.

We know, of course, that Saddam hosted a few AQ leaders--and left a paper trail stating just that, and detailing the visits: which hotels, etc., and if memory serves, I believe some mention was made of payments to them.

Of course, these are incovenient facts for some.

[Peach]

I don't think you or the president is parsing words.

As we can see, even "so called conservatives" aren't satisifed with the information that HAS come to date showing a linkage between Iraq and AQ so we can imagine how the hostile press would handle it.

We're never going to have a videotape and so from the preponderance of the evidence, which is good enough in a court of law, I'll stake my claim that the links between AQ and Iraq are legitimate and that certainly Iraq knew the attacks on 9/11 were coming as evidenced by:

Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)

In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”

The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.

[AFPhys]

I believe that Israel obtained a document from their raid on Arafat's headquarters a couple years ago with a note from Hussein promising something like $25,000 to any homicidal bomber's family. They posted an image of it on the net at the time.