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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (748794)	9/8/2006 3:12:13 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Buddy: This report cannot be right. Many posters on this thread have given assurances that Saddam harbored al-Zarquawi knowingly and that Iraq was full of known terrorists before 2003...which is reason 45 why we invaded them.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (748794)	9/8/2006 3:24:50 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The President may not agree with the Senate Intelligence Committee report...or he had not read it in August...or it depends on what the meaning of "relations" is....<g> _______________________ Senate panel finds no prewar Iraq-Qaeda link By David Morgan 1 hour, 47 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein provided no material support for al Qaeda and had no relationship with al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, despite claims by administration officials including President George W. Bush, said a Senate report released on Friday. The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, drawing on a previously undisclosed 2005 CIA assessment, was released as Americans prepared to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States by al Qaeda. Democrats said it undercut the Bush administration's justification for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, including recent statements by the president himself. "Today's reports show that the administration's repeated allegations of a past, present and future relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq were wrong and intended to exploit the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks," said Sen. John Rockefeller (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia, the panel's ranking Democrat. The committee's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting record) of Kansas, accused Democrats of presenting a misleading version of the committee's findings. "The additional views of the Committee's Democrats are little more than a rehashing of the same unfounded allegations they've used for over three years," Roberts said in a statement. Another Democrat, Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, used the report to accuse Bush of making a false statements about ties between Saddam and Zarqawi, the one-time al Qaeda in Iraq leader killed by U.S. forces. At an August 21 press conference, Bush told reporters that Saddam had relations with Zarqawi. "The CIA's October 2005 assessment that Saddam's regime did not have a relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates," Levin said. "The president's statement, made just two weeks ago, is flat-out false," Levin said. Bush administration officials pointed to supposed links between Saddam and al Qaeda to help justify their case for war before the March 2003 invasion. The assessment in the CIA report was similar to the conclusion reached by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which found that there had been no "collaborative relationship" between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Top officials also told Americans that Saddam posed a threat to his neighbors and U.S. interests because he possessed large WMD stockpiles. But no such weapons were found.