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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (77132)	6/14/2006 8:32:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>Those who had been watching the rise of world wide Wahhabi/Takfiri inspired jihadism with alarm expected something like a 9/11.<< Oh, please. You're seriously trying to tell me that "the Dems" were all living in a dream world while Bush and his people were well aware of the danger? No, that's not quite what I'm saying. Before 9/11, the Al Qaeda threat was not top priority for Bush et al, compared to say, China. But when I say "those who had been watching the rise of world wide Wahhabi/Takfiri inspired jihadism" I refer to group of people who tend largely to be in the neocon camp, with some others in the realist camp, and some others wherever Richard Clarke used to be before he decided to make his career bashing Bush. In short, those who were informed and alarmed tended much more to Republican side of the fence, and their influence skyrocketed after 9/11. Why, then, did the Bi-partisan 9/11 say they had found "no evidence of a working relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda"? Why have Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and Bush himself denied that they ever said there was any kind of connection? Because they have denied it, you know. Yes and no. They said there found no evidence of a working relationship vis-a-vis 9/11. This was trumpeted by the NYT and other MSM as = no Saddam - Al Qaeda connection whatsoever. But that is NOT what the report said. There were a number of connections between Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaeda and Ansar al Islam. More are coming to light every day as the Iraqi intelligence papers get translated, finally. Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard keeps up with the topic. What Rumsfled et al have denied is Saddam's responsibility for 9/11.