Does Condi Rice count?
President
Bush's national security adviser
Wednesday said Saddam Hussein
has sheltered al Qaeda terrorists in
Baghdad and helped train some in
chemical weapons development --
information she said has been
gleaned from captives in the
ongoing war on terrorism.
But there's also this:
The accusations followed those made by
President Bush and Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, who earlier in the day
said the United States has evidence
linking Iraq and al Qaeda, but they did not
elaborate.
cnn.com
This?
White House Says it Has Evidence of
Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 26 — The
United States has long charged Saddam
Hussein with supporting terrorism, but the
Bush administration is now alleging
something new — what one official called a
"current, symbiotic relationship" between
Iraq and al Qaeda.
President Bush appeared in the Rose Garden today
with members of Congress who support him on Iraq
and accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of
essentially the same crime he charged the Taliban
with: harboring al Qaeda terrorists.
"The regime has long-standing and continuing ties to
terrorist organizations. And there are al Qaeda
terrorists inside Iraq," he said.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "Iraq and al
Qaeda have discussed safe haven opportunities in
Iraq, reciprocal nonaggression discussions."
And, he added, al Qaeda is looking for specific
assistance from Baghdad.
abcnews.go.com
Either one whole lot of news sources are lying or Bush did say Iraq was aiding al Qaeda. And he also claimed Iraq had WMD.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that intelligence reports showed that Saddam had tons of banned weapons.
pbs.org
George Bush:
"Saddam Hussein went to great lengths to hide his weapons from the
world, and in the regime's final days, documents and suspected
weapons sites were looted and burned. "
channel4.com
Why is he trying to explain a statement he didn't make?
Come now, we all know these claims were made. They were key to generating the raging storm of patriotism necessary to get into that war. People aren't simply going to let a President launch a war because he's in a bad mood; they have to be given reasons to believe it is necessary. Those are their sons, daughters, husbnds, and wives out there getting killed. |
