Posted on 11/08/2005 8:19:30 PM PST by neverhome
WHO IN THE White House knew about DITSUM No. 044-02 and when did they know it?
That's the newly declassified smoking-gun document, originally prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in February 2002 but ignored by President Bush. Its declassification this weekend blows another huge hole in Bush's claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available when he pitched the invasion of Iraq as a way to prevent an Al Qaeda terror attack using weapons of mass destruction.
The report demolished the credibility of the key Al Qaeda informant the administration relied on to make its claim that a working alliance existed between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It was circulated widely within the U.S. government a full eight months before Bush used the prisoner's lies to argue for an invasion of Iraq because "we've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I would, but it's classified and would have to kill ya! ;]
Why bother??? It's the LA Slimes. It isn't even suitable for wrapping fish.
Yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
What the bloody hell is the LA Times now on about?
Quote in context:
We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.
Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints.
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary; confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror. When I spoke to Congress more than a year ago, I said that those who harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of mass death and destruction. And he cannot be trusted. The risk is simply too great that he will use them, or provide them to a terror network.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html
It isn't even suitable for wrapping fish.
well....i wouldn't have put it as high as fish, more like canary floor covering.
I used the LA Times to line the cat litter box.
On Britt Hume's show today he said that Fitzgerald whom investigated the first WTC bombing reported a link between UBL and Hussein on an agreement to work together on weapons.
Another "smoking gun" memo. I thinks the number of those is up to 3,412 or so.
Where did Pakistan get its enriched uranium to make its bombs? They never built the enrichment facilities like Iran has.
Saddam of course. Borders are not as important to the Empire of Islam as they are to the Nations of the West.
So Saddam obviously had the bomb.
Go read Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard. He's done great work reporting on the Saddam, UBL and Al-Qaeda ties.
I think the CIA is running a operation against its own commander in chief,
The media is helping.
The president had better start fighting back or he is toast.
Come on W!
Get wise!
Yes he has, Stephen Hayes is a first class reporter
Allow me to use my superior reasoning skills, honed by several years as a freeper. Here goes:
Oopsies.
Republican milquetoast.
They found A document. Wow......A Document. One Document. One out of how many?
Al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.
In addition, in January of 1999, Clinton Administration official Richard Clarke (yeah, that guy) told the Washington Post that the U.S. government was "sure" that Iraq was behind the production of the chemical weapons precursor at the al Shifa plant that Clinton bombed to retaliate against Al Qaeda for the African embassy bombings.
The intelligence that outlined substantial Al Qaeda/Iraq cooperation was cited endlessly by Clinton Administration officials in the late nineties. Bush used that same intelligence, and despite what the LA Times might like to claim, none of that intelligence has ever been refuted in any meaningful way.
What are the LA Times circulation numbers this week?
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