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I’m sure Al Gore, as the promoter of a return to fact-based political debate, will come to the administration’s defense and state that there were Saddam-Al Quada links.
Thanks Mark :)
Exactly. Hussain brought a severly injured al qaida leader into Iraq for emergency surgury and then let him set up camps in northern iraq for training and for producing and exporting ricin to England. The MSM reported it then but coveniently fails to read or listen to their own prior reports.
So it is any wonder fewer and fewer people pay any attnetyion otthe MSM now.
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but i thought there were no terrorists in Iraq until we got there?
Remember also that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, while based in Iraq, had directed the assassination of U.S. Diplomat Foley in Jordan on October 28, 2002. This means Al-Qaeda was based in Iraq befoere the start of the war and was active in directing successful attacks against Americans and American interests.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/12/14/jordan.killing/index.html
Also the foiled chemical bomb plot against Jordan (supposed to kill 80,000) and American interests in Jordan was also plotted from Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
President Bush has been right from day one. What the MSM tries to do is confuse their leftist sheep into believing that Bush said that Saddam was tied to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attack.
But, but, didn't the Democrats ASSURE us that al Queda WASN'T in Iraq before we, for no apparent reason, attacked that country's peace loving ruler? /S
Great Article
Hand in Glove (Iraq and al Qaeda)
National Review ^ | Feb.18, 2003 | Mansoor Ijaz
Posted on 02/18/2003 9:11:38 AM EST by conservativecorner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/845892/posts
“There is other evidence of Ansar’s al Qaeda overlay. While recuperating at base camp in the late summer, Zarqawi gave an order (in line with al Qaeda’s new directive for political assassinations) to have Laurence Foley, an American diplomat working for USAID in Amman, assassinated. His direct involvement was confirmed by the two murder suspects arrested in Amman during their confessional statements.
Then, on Feb. 9, a prominent secular Kurdish leader, Gen. Shawkat Haji Mushir, and five others were murdered in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq in apparent retaliation for the Powell expose of Ansar and Zarqawi. The modus operandi of the murder was eerily similar to the September 2001 bin Laden-sponsored assassination of Afghan resistance leader, Ahmed Shah Masood, where al Qaeda operatives posing as journalists exploded the TV camcorder in Masood’s face.”
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GREAT !
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
Remarks by the President on Iraq
Cincinnati Museum Center - Cincinnati Union Terminal
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002
“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.”
We’ve had proof that Iran has been helping Al Qeada for over three years, yet not a peep from congress.
Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed
By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 17, 2004; Page A01
“Patrick J. Fitzgerald, now a U.S. attorney in Illinois, who oversaw the African bombing case, told the commission that reference was dropped in a superceding indictment because investigators could not confirm al Qaeda’s relationship with Iraq as they had done with its ties to Iran, Sudan and Hezbollah.”
i was radio surfing and came across kgo, san francisco.
bernie moron, a leftist and hater of bush and the war,
skimmed across this same item
and said it wasn’t important.
there was, he pontificated, no al queda in iraq before bush’s war.