Drock I am not throwing a fit, I hate stupid Drock
here, I got you at stupid again drock
GWB statements did not state there was no ties, find and post it bud if the word NONE was used
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney insisted on Thursday that Saddam Hussein's deposed regime had a long history of ties to al Qaeda despite a report by the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and the terrorist network.
Bush, responding to a reporter's question about the report after a White House Cabinet meeting, said: "
The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda" is "because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda."
He said: "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. For example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with Osama bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, in the Sudan. There's numerous contacts between the two."
heney added: "The press wants to run out and say there's a fundamental split here now between what the president said and what the commission said."
He said the media had confused the question of whether there was evidence of Iraqi participation in Sept. 11 with the issue of whether a relationship existed between al Qaeda and Hussein's regime.
Speaking of the commission, he said, "They did not address the broader question of a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in other areas, in other ways."
Saying "the evidence is overwhelming," Cheney described the ties and cited numerous links back to the 1990s, including contacts between bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence officials.
Bush insists on Iraq-al Qaeda link - SFGate
9/11 Hijackers Passed Through Iran - TIME
I have not read your link, you know why?
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The staff's sweeping conclusion is found in its Statement No. 15 ("Overview of the Enemy"), which states:
Bin Laden also explored possible cooperation with Iraq during his time in Sudan, despite his opposition to Hussein's secular regime. Bin Laden had in fact at one time sponsored anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Sudanese, to protect their own ties with Iraq, reportedly persuaded Bin Laden to cease this support and arranged for contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda. A
senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting Bin Laden in 1994. Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded. There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship. Two senior Bin Laden associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al Qaeda and Iraq. We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.
Just taken on its own terms, t
his paragraph is both internally inconsistent and ambiguously worded. First, it cannot be true both that the Sudanese arranged contacts between Iraq and bin Laden and that no "ties existed between al Qaeda and Iraq." If the first proposition is so, then the "[t]wo senior Bin Laden associates" who are the sources of the second are either lying or misinformed.
Andrew C. McCarthy on 9/11 Commission & Iraq & al Qaeda on National Review Online
when you get tired of getting your ass handed to you, let me know Drock