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To: stockman_scott who wrote (129789)	4/22/2004 8:59:43 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<"One thing that was rarely reported and was on the public record of statements of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden were very critical statements about Saddam Hussein and his regime. To Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein's regime represented precisely the sort of secular world leadership that he wants to get out of the Arab world. So there was evidence, was there not, Michael Getler, that rather than being allied they were quite opposed?" "Yes, there was," replied Getler. In one of his tapes, bin Laden "specifically made that point ... and even that got very little attention." Getler quoted headlines for four stories published in the Post that did question the 9/11-Iraq-WMD connection in the run-up to the war, but they all ran "inside the paper - not on page one," he said. In the period before the Iraq war, pressure to respond to crises patriotically - and the lack of much congressional opposition - limited the assessment of White House policy and the consideration of other policy options. According to recent books by Bob Woodward, Richard Clarke and Ron Suskind (with former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill), several top officials entered office in 2001 determined to make war. This insider information only emphasizes how critical the need is for the media to give a more prominent examination of the administration's still active argument that WMD is an integral element in a global terrorism matrix, and that Iraq was part of that equation.> George Bush is the best friend bin Laden ever had.