CASE CLOSED (Osama-Saddam Link Proved in Intel Cmte Brief)

Weekly Standard ^ | Nov 14, 2003 | Stephen Hayes

[cookcounty]

ka-BOOM!

[yonif]

I wonder if the mainstream media will show this.

[HighWheeler]

Sooooo....the worm has turned.

The Dems, the world's biggest defenders and pals of Saddam and Osama, should be taken out with the rest of the freedom-hating trash.

Start the list of names.

[Zack Nguyen]

It's good to have this confirmed. Of course the lamestream press wouldn't think of covering it.

[dix]

Nice work homeboy ( I was born in Dalton in 1947).

[HighWheeler]

adios DUfus

[Dolphy]

I am not surprised by this information at all. If we go back and examine Bush and Blair's comments in the lead up to the war, I think we will find regular references to the possibility of this connection. That's the best both men could do, they couldn't make a solid case just on this and it wasn't necessary given Saddam's violation of multiple UN resolutions.

I don't believe Bush would have gone to war if not for Saddam's connection to terrorists. If not for that he was only a brutal tyrant who couldn't reach us. I do hope all those who have argued here, whose names I can't recall, see this and finally realize that the singular hatred of the US is powerful enough to trump the divisions among our enemies.

[finnman69]

Howard Dean is starting to sweat.

[GunnyB]

It would not surprise me if the leaker isn't a committee staffer on the Dem side, who has become immune to the Kool-aid.

I was moving along these lines as well - perhaps a current/former military person who sees the dims playing politics with the war...

[Quix]

I considered it obvious to even average idiots months ago.

[The Electrician]

Wonder if it is a denial of service attack on the weekly standard site...

[prairiebreeze]

I believe that is accurate. Snow is going to have a radio talk show and yes, I think I read Wallace has been hired.

Prairie

[visualops]

ping

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[prairiebreeze]

It boggles my mind how people can insist that no connection existed. Common sense points to a teaming up of AQ and Saddam for heavens sake! P>. I do hope all those who have argued here, whose names I can't recall, see this and finally realize that the singular hatred of the US is powerful enough to trump the divisions among our enemies.

Yup, well said. But there are none so blind as those that refuse to see. Or who are heavily invested in NOT seeing or acknowleging. Many both here and abroad want to see us fail, and I don't just mean Islamic extremists. It continually amazes me how, as the suicide attacks continue, it's the US that gets the criticism and NOT THE TERRORISTS!!! Nobody (hardly in print or TV) condemns them, they only blame Bush and America.

Prairie

[AdmSmith]

al-Turabi,who advocates an Islamic state and is critical of Western secularism, was released from prison in Sudan last month:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3190770.stm

When can we expect an interview with him?

[Howlin]

Tony Snow is going to have a show on Fox Radio.

And Chris Wallace will replace him; he is an EXCELLENT, FAIR reporter, not at ALL like his dad!

[prairiebreeze]

Why, in the face of compelling evidence from Clinton-era intelligence, do the 'Rats persist in lying?

Many of them are heavily invested in NOT telling or acknowleging the truth. From their own political career motivations to the more sinister agenda of wanting to weaken America and give all authority to the UN (and themselves of course).

Prairie

[Ben Hecks]

"I am not surprised by this information at all. If we go back and examine Bush and Blair's comments in the lead up to the war, I think we will find regular references to the possibility of this connection"

Along those lines, none of the Bush critics try to explain why Blair, a liberal, supported action against Iraq so strongly that it has placed his own job in jeopardy. Blair obviously had information that led to his strong position on the war. This memo would also suggest that Laurie Mylroie has been on-target from the beginning.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

The administration said that there's a connection between those terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq. Was there a basis for that?"

There was, as shown in the memo to the committee on which Levin serves. And much of the reporting comes from Clinton-era intelligence. Not that you would know this from Al Gore's recent public statements. Indeed, the former vice president claims to be privy to new "evidence" that the administration lied. In an August speech at New York University, Gore claimed: "The evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama bin Laden at all, much less give him weapons of mass destruction." Really?

Man oh man...in reading and comprehending the above article, the average Joe American (if they could muster up enough attention to actually read the whole thing) coould NOT possibly come up with the same "conclusion" as Al Gore did. That just reinforces something here on FR that we all know...Democrats will facilitate, prey upon, attempt to brainwash, lie to, and take advantage of an undereducated, unmotivated, cavalier and sheepish electorate in order to stay in power and somehow try to cast themselves in a "good" light. Thank God for FR, and thank God for the U.S.; where we are able to "learn" ourselves all on our own and come up with our own conclusions.