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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?

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To: tonto who wrote (958)	3/9/2005 11:23:50 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) of 9838

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said on Tuesday the Bush administration had never accused Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) of directing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Her statement, made in an interview recorded for broadcast on ABC's "Nightline" program, came despite long-standing administration charges the ousted Iraqi leader was linked to the al Qaeda network accused of the Sept. 11 attacks. Those charges helped fuel a widespread U.S. public belief that Saddam had a role in the attacks. "We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein ... had either direction or control of 9/11," Rice said. "What we have said is that this is someone who supported terrorists, helped to train them (and) was a threat in this region that we were not prepared to tolerate." Defending the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) to oust Saddam, she said he represented a threat in "a region from which the 9/11 threat emerged." Rice said the United States was "getting closer" to capturing Saddam and she expressed confidence the United States would obtain a "full accounting" of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which have not yet been found following Saddam's ouster. She said she continued to believe unconventional weapons stockpiles had been present in Iraq. I can't give you a quote. That's because the administration was carefully dancing around the point. However, 7 out of 10 Americans believed that Saddam was linked to 9-11. I'd say that Bush got his message across very well. He bobbed and he weaved the tales of two tyrants...until they merged in to a single enemy...the war on terror. Orca

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