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Politics : THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (437)	11/15/2003 7:24:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2164

If Osama-Saddam connection is at all true, why didn't Bushies present this to the US, UN, congress? They were DYING for proof like this. This would have been better than finding WMD's. "This according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD" does not identify its source. for all we know this could be a joke, a hoax or from those lying Irawi resistance guys hoping to curry favor with Cheney. And where in the US government is it from? Someplace credible or some highly questionable source. The Standard does not say "credible souce" you notice, so they can deny all this later. All I know is I was in Prague after the Atta story surfaced and read that the Czech government retracted it, said there were no meetings and that they were mistaken. Nevertheless Cheney went on repeating that story. Also, why wouldn't Carl Levin co-head of the Intel Committee of the Senate know any of this? Why wouldn't MOSSAD know? Why wouldn't Saudi intel, Ruyssian intel or British intel know? Why wouldn't Iraqi's we've captured have spilled these beans? Top secret memos with this much firepower don't just get lost, hidden and suddenly surface to the Weekly Standard. If this were true, Bush-Cheney would have used is as their #1 reason for invading Iraq, and we all would have been much more behind them. Since they didn't, something stinks in Weekly Standardville. And someone has a lot of explaining to do. I'll believe it when I see it from a more credible source that's not part of a right-wing think tank. Did you see the SHATTTERED GLASS movie out now about the reporter who was so eager for a big scoop he made up sources and stories? This may be such a case. It just flies in the face of all conventional wisdom.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (437)	11/15/2003 8:14:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2164

Cheney, on NBC's "Meet the Press," also repeated an allegation — doubted by many in the intelligence community — that Mohamed Atta, the lead Sept. 11 attacker, met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Prague five months before Sept. 11. (this was a lie Cheney repeated) "We've never been able to develop any more of that yet, either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it," Cheney said Sunday. However, other U.S. authorities have said information gathered on Atta's movement show he was on the U.S. East Coast when that meeting supposedly took place. Critics of the Bush administration have pointed to statements like Cheney's as evidence that the administration was exaggerating al-Qaida's prewar links with Saddam to help justify the U.S.-led war against Iraq. If the Bushies had evidence, they would DEFINITELY be telling us about it.