Rewriting history
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A detailed Pentagon study confirms there was no direct link between Iraqi ex-leader Saddam Hussein and the Al Qaeda network, debunking a claim President George W. Bush’s administration used to justify invading Iraq.
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and top aides have insisted there were links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda, citing the alleged ties as a rationale for going to war in Iraq.
“The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda,” he told reporters in June 2004.
The 9/11 Commission highlighted those links. They were not operational, just simply things such as meetings. At one point, intelligence showed that Osama Bin Laden had inquired into using Iraq as a home base after Somalia.
Furthermore, neither Bush nor any in his administration used Al Qaeda as a rationale for the Iraq War, except in terms of going after terrorists and the nations that support them. There is 100% proof positive that Iraq was, in fact, supporting regional terrorism in the Middle East, mostly against Israel.
But, this is an old, regurgitated discussion, so, let’s play “Who Wrote This”
“Iraq’s increasing support to extremist Palestinians, coupled with growing indications of a relationship with al Qaeda, suggests that Baghdad’s links to terrorists will increase, even absent U.S. military action…We have solid reporting of senior-level contacts betwenn Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade…We have credible reporting that al Qaeda leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities.”
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The person would be Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, in a 2002 letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Guess which Party was the majority party in 2002?
