Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
No, what you presented was a distortion of context, and did NOT show Bush said Saddam was responsible for 9/11, as Liberals have often inferred. In fact, Bush, Cheney, and others, OFTEN clarified just the opposite.
Now you're just being stubborn to the point of insipidness. Bush clearly connects Hussein to 9/11.
In his October 29, 2003, President Bush has tried to revive the false link between 9-11 and Iraq claiming that the suicide bombers in Iraq were “probably both Ba’athists and foreign terrorists”, explaining that “it’s the same mentality, by the way, that attacked us . . . on September 11th, 2001. . . . And Iraq is a central part of the war on terror.”
In his October 7, 2002 address to the nation, Bush Iraq-Al Qaeda connections “go back a decade.”
As of September 2003, the Bush administration still couches the war in Iraq as part of the war against terrorism. The administration claims “Iraq is now the central front” in that war.
www.bushlies.net
I DEFY YOU TO FACTUALLY DISPROVE 1 OR ALL 3 OF THESE ITEMS. IF YOU CAN'T THEN DON'T WASTE TIME AND SPACE WITH MORE DODGY BS.
You further take out of context, the findings of the 9/11 commission, when congressmen sitting in Washington, looking at papers and documents only, said “no credible evidence of a collaborative relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.” 1.) It doesn't mean one never existed. 2.) No one ever claimed a "collaborative relationship" existed, nor would it have to exist for Saddam to be giving aid to alQaeda terrorists.
Newsflash: YOUR supposition and conjecture doesn't cut when historical fact is available. Of course YOU edit out this tidbit that would have prevented your BS The 9-11 Commission found “no credible evidence of a collaborative relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.” The Commission stressed that “it had access to the same information [that Vice President Cheney] has seen regarding contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq prior to the 9/11 attacks.”
You conveniently left out some other facts as well, which means your entire argument is out of context and dishonest. FACT: One of the bombers in the first attack on the WTC was living in Baghdad and getting a monthly stipend from the Saddam regime. Really? How long did he live there. Where's your proof of this? What was the guy's status while living in Iraq. I gave sources, where are yours? FACT: On eight occasions, representatives of alQaeda met with representatives of Saddam's regime. No shit sherlock! And domestic and foreign intelligence agencies concluded that there was no truce or workable liason that resulted from these meetings. A CIA report found that there were some contacts between Iraq and bin Laden in the early 1990s (when Al Qaeda was in its infancy), the report concluded that the early contacts had not led to any continuing high-level relationships.---Pincus – Washington Post 06.22.03); Axheswe – Los Angeles Times 07.10.03[/I]FACT: alQaeda terrorists were training in Salman Pak, Iraq. FACT: Saddam personally sent Faruq Hijazi, IIS deputy director and later Iraqi ambassador to Turkey, to meet with bin Laden at least twice, first in Sudan and later in Afghanistan in 1999. Tell us something we don't know, mastermind. Again, the CIA concluded and told the Shrub that these meetings RESULTED IN NO ALLIANCE OR TRUCE OF ANY KIND. FACT: The Director of Iraqi Intelligence, Mani abd-al-Rashid al-Tikriti, met privately with bin Laden at his farm in Sudan in July 1996.
Which the Pentagon reported that as a result, no alliance was made. Here, FYI http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88177006
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Yeah I know...you keep rehashing LONG DISPROVEN neocon/Shrub propaganda. That's okay....willfully ignorant necons don't know any better. Carry on.