Posted on 11/22/2005 8:17:42 AM PST by Weimdog
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I've said again and again that this was the worst turn that George Tenet did for President Bush.
Tenet got on TV or spoke to MSM reporters again and again and again, insisting that the story about Atta in Prague was false. Wrong. Czech intelligence stuck with their story, and I am inclined to believe them before I believe a lying clintonoid like Tenet.
There were other connections between Saddam and al Qaeda, but the meeting in Prague was the smoking gun, and Tenet spent an inordinate amount of time shooting it down, contrary to evidence that was well known at the time.
I think President Bush was a fool to keep that traitor in office one day after he assumed the presidency. I also think he is still a fool to keep Mueller as head of the FBI, since Mueller has done nothing but cover up for the clintonoids in the FBI. As this story says, it has taken both the CIA and the FBI to cover up the Prague connection, and they have worked very hard to do it.
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Great news! Thanks for posting this.
I'm off to get the paper version of WSJ!
Remember when Dan Rather interviewed Saddam in 2002 or early 2003? Dan asked Saddam about 911 and Saddam said, in rought translation, that he had a right to defend himself. He justified the attack.
An expert on Arabic should parse it for us.
Bookmarked too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The reference to the WSJ is a bit confusing. The piece appears in Opinion Journal, and is available to anyone who has done the free registration, here:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007584
One point that needs stressing is that the CIA evidently LEAKED the story prematurely to the MSM, and this rightly angered Czech intelligence. LeakGate, anyone?
This is what LeakGate is really about. Not Scooter Libby or Bush, but the rogues in the CIA who regularly leak to the leftist press for their own traitorous purposes.
good post.
If the Republicans were smart (so we know this won't happen)this should pressed and investigated.
If Mizz Clinton comes to power she will be dragging along the foreign policy hacks that have conspired to cover up all this mess.
It was because the CIA is so leaky (and otherwise undependable) that British intelligence has a direct link to the WH, according to to guests on the John Batchelor Show. The Brits gave Bush the Niger yellowcake info directly bypassing the CIA which further inflamed the CIA. Bush said in retrospect that he shouldn't have included the "16 words" in his SOTU--not because it was untrue, but because it was from an outside source.
OK, it's off thread, but linked in a way.
Big ol' Bump.
Bump for a later read.
I forget...did Earl Warren head that commission too? /sarcasm
Excellent article.
More on the "boogie to baghdad" from Byron York -
In case you dont remember, Boogie to Baghdad is the phrase that Richard Clarke, when he was the top White House counterterrorism official during the Clinton administration, used to express his fear that if American forces pushed Osama bin Laden too hard at his hideout in Afghanistan, bin Laden might move to Iraq, where he could stay in the protection of Saddam Hussein.
Clarkes opinion was based on intelligence indicating a number of contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq, including word that Saddam had offered bin Laden safe haven.
Its all laid out in the Sept. 11 commission report. Boogie to Baghdad is on Page 134.
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youve forgotten, heres the short version of the story behind Boogie to Baghdad, taken from the Sept. 11 report:
In 1996, after bin Laden moved from Sudan to Afghanistan, he wasnt sure if he would be able to get along with his new Taliban hosts. So he made inquiries about moving to Iraq.
Saddam wasnt interested. At the time, he was trying to have better relations with his neighbors and bin Ladens enemy the Saudis.
But a bit later, Saddam apparently changed his mind. According to the report:
In March 1998, after bin Ladens public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with bin Laden.
Still nothing happened. But later:
Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and bin Laden or his aides may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban. According to the [intelligence] reporting, Iraqi officials offered bin Laden a safe haven in Iraq. Bin Laden declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative.
It was in that context that Clarke believed that if the United States made bin Ladens situation too hot in Afghanistan, then, in Clarkes non-famous words, old wily Osama will likely boogie to Baghdad.
Now, that doesnt at all suggest that Iraq had a role in Sept. 11, but it certainly does suggest a relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/ByronYork/111705.html
Richard Clarke is a scurrilous, scumbag, lying self-promoting traitor. Other than that, he's a ok guy.
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