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Re: 9/11 Panel: No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:28:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
Not surprisingly, Dubya is still
clinging to his
“admit no error policy.”
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Steve Bell gets it right again:
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Here are a few lies of omission worth noting:
“This administration never said that the 9-11 attacks were orchestrated
between Saddam and al-Qaida,” he said.
Even in the last few days Cheney and Powell have been implying a substantive
link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and for many months members of the
administration including, but not limited to Dubya, Cheney, Rice, Powell,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Ridge have deliberately constructed their
rhetoric to keep Iraq and Al Qaeda adjacent in the public’s memory. At the
very best, such careless fearmongering is dishonest and irresponsible. At
worst, it is treasonous. I’m hoping that it will be recognized as the
latter.
“We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and
al-Qaida, for example, Iraqi intelligence agents met with (Osama) bin Laden,
the head of al-Qaida in the Sudan.”
Of course, Dubya does not say that the meeting resulted in Iraq’s refusal to
allow Al Qaeda to use Iraq’s territory and resources for terrorist training.
Instead, Dubya omits that key fact and allows the implication of collusion to
stand.
For all of his idiocy in terms of domestic policy, Dubya is actually much
better at performing cowardly legalistic gymnastics to hide from
accountability.
For example, imagine that someone finds a tape of Dubya making the following
claims:
“We have definitive evidence that Iraq orchestrated 9/11 with Al Qaida.”
Well, he can still say “We never said that Saddam orchestrated it. We
said that Iraq orchestrated it.” A deceitful but technically correct
answer.
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Blair on WMD: “Saddam
retained complete strategic intent to develop those weapons”.
Scott A
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