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FLASHBACK: Clinton first linked al Qaeda to Saddam
Washington Times ^ | June 25, 2004 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 09/08/2006 8:11:33 PM PDT by FairOpinion

The Clinton administration talked about firm evidence linking Saddam Hussein's regime to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network years before President Bush made the same statements.

In fact, during President Clinton's eight years in office, there were at least two official pronouncements of an alarming alliance between Baghdad and al Qaeda. One came from William S. Cohen, Mr. Clinton's defense secretary. He cited an al Qaeda-Baghdad link to justify the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.

The other pronouncement is contained in a Justice Department indictment on Nov. 4, 1998, charging bin Laden with murder in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

The indictment disclosed a close relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam's regime, which included specialists on chemical weapons and all types of bombs, including truck bombs, a favorite weapon of terrorists.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1998; alqaeda; alqaedaandiraq; alqaedairaq; benedictarnold; clinton; iraqalqaeda; saddam; senatereport; terrorism; wotwaronterror
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To: Txsleuth

Sandy Berger has had the guts to show his face? The human document shredder? Makes me glad we weren't home to watch the shout shows. LOL


21 posted on 09/08/2006 8:29:49 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: FairOpinion
How could the Republicans participate in the production of the factually false report that claims there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq?!

They are obeying orders?

22 posted on 09/08/2006 8:29:55 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Democrats. French, but more cowardly.)
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To: msnimje
Why the hell does any of this matter?? The War on Terrorism is EVERYWHERE the terrorists are and they ARE IN IRAQ!

Exactly. Ex-act-ly. E-x-a-c-t-l-y.

The libs and the DBM treat this war as if it's a court case...they see themselves as the 'articulate' defense counselor versus the mean Distrct Attorney...George W. Bush.

23 posted on 09/08/2006 8:30:02 PM PDT by NewLand (Always Remember September 11, 2001)
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To: Axhandle

I guess you haven't been following the news? There are only several hundred news items proclaiming, that the US Senate Report found NO link between Al Qaeda and Saddam.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=senate+al+qaeda+saddam&btnG=Search+News


No Al Qaeda-Saddam Hussein links - US Senate report


http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/09/08/afx3003374.html


24 posted on 09/08/2006 8:32:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: Peach

Chin up and hammer down!


25 posted on 09/08/2006 8:32:34 PM PDT by 308MBR (I'll be back for YOU, Jack, and I'll let the MACHINE speak! That's right. That's right.....)
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To: Peach
I am the political one in the family..and my husband never listens to talk radio...but, tonight, he took the baby home in my car...and it was on the station that carries Mark Levin.

Well..Mark was going OFF on the Dems that put forth their views of the Senate Intelligence report on 9/11...and how Rockefeller and Levin went on and on about how there never was any link between Saddam and al-queds...

THEN, he read that infamous secret memo of Rockefellers where he was planning over 2 years ago...to do exactly what they did today...no matter WHAT the actual findings of an investigation shows...they planned on putting their own out blaming Bush Administration.

Well...he came home just all upset about that memo..and all fired up after listening to Mark..he said he had NO IDEA the dems were that deceitful...I told him he didn't know the half of it...lOL

NOW, he wants me to get a copy of that memo and print it out so he can take it to his lib friends at work!
26 posted on 09/08/2006 8:33:58 PM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL)))))) Pray for the release of the Israelis.)
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To: TWohlford
...I am confident that the Dems, should they wake up and be in power after the election, will continue the same basic policies of the current Congress.

That's a kind generous and hopeful sentiment--to think the best of one's fellow man will rise up the reality of the moment and pursue the good instead of the bad. Given the abysmal record of the Democrats on matters of national security in the years leading up to and since 9-11, however, it strikes me as an utterly misplaced and naive hope.

27 posted on 09/08/2006 8:34:23 PM PDT by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." Mk 5:36)
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To: All; jveritas

Also see:

Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 (Re-Post For A Reminder)

Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents | September 8 2006 | jveritas


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697938/posts


28 posted on 09/08/2006 8:34:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: Txsleuth

I'd forgotten about that memo, Txsleuth!

Maybe tomorrow would be a good time to re-post it.


29 posted on 09/08/2006 8:34:52 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

Oh, yeah...Sandy was the worst.....Bubba and Rodham both just said the movie was full of lies...but Sandy said that it shouldn't be shown because it is so false.


30 posted on 09/08/2006 8:36:17 PM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL)))))) Pray for the release of the Israelis.)
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To: Peach

Peach, you are a peach. :)

Thanks for saving, organizing and posting all those links.


31 posted on 09/08/2006 8:36:56 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion

You're welcome, FairOpinion. I know a lot of freepers have seen that list before (many, many times) and I'm sorry it's so long but there's almost always a few freepers who've never seen it before so I decide to bug everybody else. LOL


32 posted on 09/08/2006 8:38:09 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Voss; Peach

Wow. Ping to myself, and a huge thanks to Peach.


33 posted on 09/08/2006 8:39:05 PM PDT by Voss
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To: Txsleuth

Sandy should be ashamed to show his face after what he did. I'm surprised to hear he's surfaced.

All that stealing of documents was to protect his legacy and Clinton's. And who knows what they put IN the file; we only know what they took out.


34 posted on 09/08/2006 8:39:06 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Voss

You're welcome, Voss.


35 posted on 09/08/2006 8:39:30 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: ladyinred
Well, it matters I guess to some because they love to say it.

They do, don't they? They just say it and say it and say it.

And for the life of me, I still don't remember that being one of the reasons George Bush said we needed to go to Iraq.

But it's nice to see none other than The Washington Post say Bill Clinton said it first, isn't it???

36 posted on 09/08/2006 8:39:57 PM PDT by Howlin (Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
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To: ladyinred

Whoops.........The Washington Times.

But anyway, HILLARY will see it over her breakfast table and so will most of D.C.


37 posted on 09/08/2006 8:40:33 PM PDT by Howlin (Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
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To: Peach

Just keep reposting it many times, especially between now and the elections, to remind people how much proof exists totally debunking the Dems lies.


38 posted on 09/08/2006 8:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: AHerald

"...it strikes me as an utterly misplaced and naive hope."

It's not a hope. It's reality. As much as the libs rant and rave, they don't have the power to overcome reality. Reality is a sobring thing, you know. It's one thing to make outragous statements when you've got no power, but yet another to actually run things when you are in power.


39 posted on 09/08/2006 8:41:08 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: msnimje

I'll bet there are more in Iran,, by far,,, and more in syria. I'll bet Iraq is just a training ground


40 posted on 09/08/2006 8:41:46 PM PDT by himno hero
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