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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (70810)	6/5/2008 4:28:26 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 542940

>>Wow. I can't believe people are still pushing that canard. Maybe repetition does create its own truth.<< Oeconomicus - I know how you feel. I'm amazed that people still bring up the idea that Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11 because he didn't do enough about terrorism or catching Osama bin Laden. The "canard" to which you refer, however, has only gained strength and veracity as the evidence has continued to mount. To me, that makes it much less duck-like. Here's a story from today's headlines: Bush misused Iraq intelligence: Senate report By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and his top policymakers misstated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programs as they made a case for war, the Senate intelligence committee reported on Thursday. The report shows an administration that "led the nation to war on false premises," said the committee's Democratic Chairman, Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia. Several Republicans on the committee protested its findings as a "partisan exercise." The committee studied major speeches by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in advance of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and compared key assertions with intelligence available at the time. Statements that Iraq had a partnership with al Qaeda were wrong and unsupported by intelligence, the report said. It said that Bush's and Cheney's assertions that Saddam was prepared to arm terrorist groups with weapons of mass destruction for attacks on the United States contradicted available intelligence. Such assertions had a strong resonance with a U.S. public, still reeling after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Polls showed that many Americans believed Iraq played a role in the attacks, even long after Bush acknowledged in September 2003 that there was no evidence Saddam was involved. The report also said administration prewar statements on Iraq's weapons programs were backed up in most cases by available U.S. intelligence, but officials failed to reflect internal debate over those findings, which proved wrong. PUBLIC CAMPAIGN The long-delayed Senate study supported previous reports and findings that the administration's main cases for war -- that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was spreading them to terrorists -- were inaccurate and deeply flawed. "The president and his advisors undertook a relentless public campaign in the aftermath of the (September 11) attacks to use the war against al Qaeda as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein," Rockefeller said in written commentary on the report. "Representing to the American people that the two had an operational partnership and posed a single, indistinguishable threat was fundamentally misleading and led the nation to war on false premises." Full story: news.yahoo.com