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No one ever said Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. Show me.
The Senate intelligence report did say that AQ and Saddams minions had contact, but there was no operational link.
Show me.
See, it didn't have to be said over and over. It was eluded too and the American public took the bait. If you went around tomorrow and asked random people why we went to Iraq, I gaurantee you one of the most common answers you would get would be "because he helped blow up the World Trade Center" It is common knowledge that a large amount of misinformation went out to the public when Bush was whipping us into a frenzy. And when he switched gears and headed into Iraq, the public believed we were hunting down terrorists. Iraq was incriminated in the minds of Americans who had been subtly pushed to link Saddam and Al Queda.
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda? | Countdown to Crawford | Los Angeles Times (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/08/forged-document.html - broken link)
See, it didn't have to be said over and over. It was eluded too and the American public took the bait. If you went around tomorrow and asked random people why we went to Iraq, I gaurantee you one of the most common answers you would get would be "because he helped blow up the World Trades Center" It is common knowledge that a large amount of misinformation went out to the public when Bush was whipping us into a frenzy. And when he switched gears and headed into Iraq, the public believed we were hunting down terrorists. Iraq was incriminated in the minds of Americans who had been subtly pushed to link Saddam and Al Queda.
After the horror of 9/11, the possibility of an Iraq with WMD and the incentive to hand them off to terrorists, as well as the intolerable idea of a nuclear reconstituted Iraq could not stand. He had WMD, he used WMD, the inspectors were there looking for WMD, the world thought he had WMD. Just too much of a chance to take.
Besides, he was in violation of 17 UN resolutions from the Gulf War - just that alone technically justified an invasion.
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda? | Countdown to Crawford | Los Angeles Times (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/08/forged-document.html - broken link)
You beat me to it... I was just about ready to come up with some good links as I knew they were out there. I heard on the radio just a couple of days ago sound bites of both Bush and Cheney making the claim of 9/11 + Hussein and al Qaeda... Thanks...
There most certainly was a relationship between the two. It is well documented that the parties had contact. The SI report says the same, although there was no operational link.
But the report of the commission's staff, based on its access to all relevant classified information, said that there had been contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda but no cooperation.
No "collaboration" - "contact" yes.
This links are all basically the same story.
I don't recall Bush or Cheney claiming Saddam had a direct part in 9/11. They have always said AQ had contact with him, which was true.
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Here are a few links. Don't expect any of you to take any of them seriously though. Still, someone must be lying.
