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Hmmmm.... one of superfreaks last remaining reasons to attack saddam appears to go up in smoke.

George Bush: "This is the guy that tried to kill my Dad"


Pentagon report finds no evidence of Saddam attempt to assassinate Bush

In President Bush's view, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was many things -- a developer of weapons of mass destruction, an ally of al Qaeda and "a guy that tried to kill my dad."

Recent intelligence reports have already shot down those first two notions. No WMD stockpiles were found in Iraq after the US invasion, and a just-released Pentagon assessment failed to find any "smoking gun" link between Saddam and the terror group that plotted the 9/11 attacks.

Now skepticism is newly enveloping allegations of an Iraqi plot to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush during a trip to Kuwait in 1993. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports that the same Pentagon report that has essentially disproved an Iraq-al Qaeda link also calls into question the 1993 plot that spurred former President Bill Clinton to launch a Tomahawk cruise-missle strike against Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). Isikoff writes:

The review, conducted for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, combed through 600,000 pages of Iraqi intelligence documents seized after the fall of Baghdad, as well as thousands of hours of audio- and videotapes of Saddam's conversations with his ministers and top aides. The study found that the IIS kept remarkably detailed records of virtually every operation it planned, including plots to assassinate Iraqi exiles and to supply explosives and booby-trapped suitcases to Iraqi embassies. But the Pentagon researchers found no documents that referred to a plan to kill Bush. The absence was conspicuous because researchers, aware of its potential significance, were looking for such evidence. "It was surprising," said one source familiar with the preparation of the report (who under Pentagon ground rules was not permitted to speak on the record). Given how much the Iraqis did document, "you would have thought there would have been some veiled reference to something about [the plot]."
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Isikoff notes that the absence of evidence does not prove the Iraqis weren't planning to assassinate the former question (just as Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously said about Iraq WMD never found, that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"), but his latest report adds to questions that have been raised about the alleged plot since the months before and after the missile strike it inspired.






http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pentagon_report_finds_no_evidence_of_0324.html
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uscitizen said:
that threatened to kill my dad thing is so childish for a leader of the USA anyway.
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Maureen whatsername from the New York Times did a hoot of a Freudian sort of piece on Dubya on that one. I thought his reference was completely bizarre. But then I think he's a very strange man so I shouldn't have been surprised.
 
Diuretic said:
Maureen whatsername from the New York Times did a hoot of a Freudian sort of piece on Dubya on that one. I thought his reference was completely bizarre. But then I think he's a very strange man so I shouldn't have been surprised.
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Don't bring up her name bro. You're liable to get B slapped.
 
Cypress said:
Hmmmm.... one of superfreaks last remaining reasons to attack saddam appears to go up in smoke.

George Bush: "This is the guy that tried to kill my Dad"
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you really are a deceitful little moron aren't you.

Why don't you explain to us how scientists don't use averages again.... they just use means.
 
Superfreak said:
you really are a deceitful little moron aren't you.

Why don't you explain to us how scientists don't use averages again.... they just use means.
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Yeah, I was wondering when you'd see this. I kept thinking. I can't remember the last time SF said, "We went in because Saddam tried to kill H. W. Bush and it was worth it for that reason!"
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, I was wondering when you'd see this. I kept thinking. I can't remember the last time SF said, "We went in because Saddam tried to kill H. W. Bush and it was worth it for that reason!"
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the reason you can't recall the last time I said that is probably due to the fact that I never stated that as a reason or justification for going in.
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, I was wondering when you'd see this. I kept thinking. I can't remember the last time SF said, "We went in because Saddam tried to kill H. W. Bush and it was worth it for that reason!"
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Don't lie Damo. SF always talks about H.W. Bush and the attempted assination. Seriously, like almost everyday.
 
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