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The U.S. military's first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102799.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88226425
Next you're going to tell me there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction!
Are we going to do this one again? The only people that believed there was anything more than a tenuous connection between Hussein and AQ are the ones uneducated on the topic of the Middle East and its factions.
Are we going to do this one again? The only people that believed there was anything more than a tenuous connection between Hussein and AQ are the ones uneducated on the topic of the Middle East and its factions.
And yet this was a major initiative by the Bush whitewash in revving up for the war.
Now they are saying that althought there was no Al Quaeda in Iraq before the war, they will be there for a long long time now.
Somehow it seems counterintuitive if the war in Iraq is the real battleground for the war on terrorism.
If it's old news and doesn't need to be discussed, then why do so many on the right bring up Clinton? Isn't he also in the past. I guess it's what we want to acknowledge or not.
Are we going to do this one again? The only people that believed there was anything more than a tenuous connection between Hussein and AQ are the ones uneducated on the topic of the Middle East and its factions.
.CONDI RICE We know too that several of the detainees, in particular some high-ranking detainees, have said that Iraq provided some training to Al Qaeda in chemical-weapons development.
ARI FLEISHER: Clearly, Al Qaeda is operating inside Iraq. And the point is, in the shadowy world of terrorism, sometimes there is no precise way to have definitive information until it is too late.
ARI FLEISHER: We have solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraqi officials going back a decade, and, as Condi said, of chemical and biological agent training.
ARI FLEISHER:. We know that Al Qaeda have found refuge in Iraq. There is credible reporting that Al Qaeda leaders sought contacts in Iraq to acquire chemical and other weapons of mass destruction capabilities.
ARI FLEISHER: Well, as Condi said last nightI cite her words"Iraq has provided some training to Al Qaeda in chemical weapons development."
RUMSFELD: This is a man who continues to murder his own people; a man who has gassedused gas on his own citizens; a man who has used chemical weapons on his neighbors; a man who has invaded two countries; a man which hateswho hates America; a man who loves to link up with Al Qaeda; a man who is a true threat to America, to Israel, to anybody in the neighborhood.
BUSH: We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemythe United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.
BUSH: This is a man that we know has had connections with Al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use Al Qaeda as a forward army. And this is a man that we must deal with for the sake of peace, for the sake of our children's peace.
BUSH: We know that he has had contacts with terrorist networks like Al Qaeda. And we know, clearly, that one of the dangers we face is him serving as a training ground and an arsenal for one of these shadowy terrorist networks, which could come home, come home here. And so he's a danger.
BUSH: Saddam is a man who would likely team up with Al Qaeda. He could provide the arsenal for one of these shadowy terrorist networks. He would love to use somebody else to attack us, and not leave fingerprints behind.
BUSH: And, not only that, he iswould like nothing better than to hook-up with one of these shadowy terrorist networks like Al Qaeda, provide some weapons and training to them, let them come and do his dirty work, and we wouldn't be able to see his fingerprints on his action.
BUSH: Saddam's a threat because he is dealing with Al Qaeda. In my Cincinnati speech, I reminded the American people, a true threat facing our country is that an Al Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and leave not one fingerprint.
CONDI RICE: Al Qaeda operatives gain training in CBRN [chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear], or having meetings withbetween Iraqis and Al Qaeda in various parts of the world, there's a relationship here.
BUSH: Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror. He is pressing forward with weapons of mass destructionweapons he's already used in his war against Iran and against his own people. His regime has had high-level contacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.
CHENEY: It's been pretty well confirmed that he (Atta) did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia
http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/Search/Default.aspx
And Dick Cheney.
oh wait... you said "believed"....
never mind.
Wait a minute Gunny.
1. AQ committed the atrocities on 9/11
2. Cheney rushes in and tells Bush that Saddam was connected to AQ so Iraq can be invaded.
3. Iraq is invaded.
Which bit did I get wrong?
Line 2 would be wrong.
AP) Saddam Hussein's government did not cooperate with al Qaeda prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department said in a report based on interrogations of the deposed leader and two of his former aides.
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al Qaeda links to Saddam's Iraq, contending that the terrorist group was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda. Others in al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al Qaeda operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview Thursday. "As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq."
However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of Saddam and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion.
Are we going to do this one again? The only people that believed there was anything more than a tenuous connection between Hussein and AQ are the ones uneducated on the topic of the Middle East and its factions.
That tired old lie again. Get over it, it didn't sell back then and it doesn't sell now. The Government openly stated FOR the record that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. More than once. And Bush never said we were invading Iraq because of 9/11 or even because of Al Queda.
I really didn't say specifically that the government said it. Although, some in the govt. certainly alluded to it more than once.
Here's Cheney making a specific allusion:
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But mostly, it was the MSM playing on our emotions about 9/11. We saw it all day, everyday in the media leading up to the invasion. I remember it vividly. No one really even had to say "Saddam was involved". All the media needed to do was talk about 9/11, talk about Saddam, equate them both with terrorism, and people were fooled. It's called propaganda RGS. The media has perfected the art of it.
The point is, that regardless of who said there was a link, most people automatically equated Saddam and 9/11. It's the main argument for why the invasion wouldn't have been possible without 9/11 happening.
No, line two was right and has been publicly stated by the Dark Lord on TV multiple times even after it was proved wrong.
They launched a war that wasn't needed. The true believers will still follow that line no matter where it goes. We need to finish what we started.
But none of them will say we need to hold accountable those who led US into this war with bullshit evidence.
We can hold Billy accountable for lying about a BJ, but not Bush, Cheney, Feith, Wolfy or any other NeoCant for their disastrous lack of leadership in getting US into Iraq/
If any of you screwed up that bad in your job, would you still be working there?
Read the Post Article that I posted. Little Luke Cowpie has been manipulated by the Dark Lord since day one.
The really stupid thing is we aren't really even fighting terrorism in Iraq. We kill ten and create another 20.
