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To: GST who wrote (115036)	9/16/2003 8:12:42 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

That's very funny. Next Rumsfeld will be saying he never thought Iraq had WMD in 2002 or 2003. After all, now that the goods have been sold, there is no reason to continue the advertising campaign.

To: GST who wrote (115036)	9/16/2003 9:20:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Cheney said he recalled being asked about an Iraq connection to 9/11 shortly after the attacks, and he recalled saying he knew of no evidence at that point. "Subsequent to that, we have learned a couple of things," he said. "We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s; that it involved training, for example, on BW (biological warfare) and CW (chemical warfare) — that al-Qaida sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems, and involved the Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaida organization." Apparently some of this training may have involved those personnel who attacked the USS Cole and/or the Embassy bombings... Stay tuned. Lots of documents to be translated and analyzed. Hawk

To: GST who wrote (115036)	9/16/2003 10:02:33 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Rumsfeld seems to have slipped up there. Wolfowitz seems more current on local standards of "logic" and "evidence". Robert G. Kaiser: I can't assign responsibility easily. Those like the author of the previous comment, who have made up their minds without regard to facts, are beyond my ken. But of course Administration officials have hinted at this connection, or implied it directly, on many occasions. Paul Wolfowitz wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week which ended, bizarrely, with the observation that if you don't think Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks, you should go to Iraq (as he recently did) and interview our soldiers there. You would find, Wolfowitz said, that the soldiers think Iraq was involved. DId that make it true? He didn't say so in that article, and of course there is still no evidence of it. Osama and Saddam never had anything in common except perhaps their hatred for us, and we have no evidence that shared hatred produced any sort of alliance. washingtonpost.com Normally, I'd dig up the referenced WSJ article just for completeness, but I'm not feeling very convoluted tonight.