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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6336)	12/21/2003 3:25:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

And since so many people are criticizing Bush for attempting to link Iraq to Al-Qaeda, here's a bit of history from the prior administration: The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties From the December 29, 2003 / January 5, 2004 issue: Connecting the dots in 1998, but not in 2003. by Stephen F. Hayes 12/29/2003, Volume 009, Issue 16 ARE AL QAEDA'S links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq just a fantasy of the Bush administration? Hardly. The Clinton administration also warned the American public about those ties and defended its response to al Qaeda terror by citing an Iraqi connection... con't weeklystandard.com Of course, that intelligence appeared to be flawed since nothing was apparently discovered at the Khartoum plant. But considering that the missile attacks were also tied to missile strikes against Al-Qaeda training camps, it shows that the previous administration's intelligence estimates had SOME BASIS for making such linkages. Hawk