There is a link also on my site Connect the Dots . . . Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
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great find
Well, that's not surprising. I knew that all along.
good find, but not that the media cares what it said way back then. Things said during the Bent One's time don't apply now.
I always enjoyed Sheila MacVicar's reporting. ABC axed her for some reason...I don't know if she's with any other network anymore.
Nice find - what made you do this? One would think that the Republicans would be all over this. Send this to Rush and Sean!
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excellent. Thank you. I am emailing this to all my friends.
Thanks so much for the ping, christie!
Connect-the-dots ping! Just wanted to make sure you have this for your archives...
Atta Girl!! A gold star for you!
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Good catch I wonder if the news media needs a memory jog.
there is always the list of media outlet contacts located in my profile. . .
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Here's a mention by the MRC on MacVicar's report. From the link:
1. Nets Pounce on No bin Laden-Saddam Link, But Bush Believed Media The networks pounced Wednesday night on how the 9-11 Commission decided, as CNN’s David Ensor put it in echoing the commission’s exaggeration of administration claims, “the commission staff report says Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and backs that up with some evidence.” CBS’s John Roberts stressed how the commission undermined President Bush, describing the Iraq connection as “one of President Bush’s last surviving justifications for war in Iraq.” Roberts charged: “The report is yet another blow to the President’s credibility.” ABC’s Terry Moran proposed: “After the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq undermined President Bush’s main argument for going to war, this new finding by the 9-11 Commission challenges his case on another front.” Unmentioned by ABC, how maybe the Bush administration believed there was a bin Laden-Iraq connection because they believed ABC News. In 1999, ABC’s Sheila MacVicar trumpeted how “ABC News has learned that” a top Iraqi official “made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad.”
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Thanks for finding and posting this!
Your site is excellent. Thanks for posting the link.
Kerry and Dims WRONG again!
What did Kerry and Dims do in 1999?
Nothing, just like in 2004!
Another often overlooked (and irrefutable) connection: they're both Arabs who are sworn enemies of America.