Bush’s admission is known as an ‘argument against interest’.
I don’t have to endorse all that he says in order to demonstrate that he acknowledges a claim that runs counter to his own benefit.
Moreover Bush’s admission runs counter to your claim that there was a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda. Your claim is that only the brainwashed believe it isn’t so, which by logic dumps Bush in my camp.
I suspect if there were evidence he would be the first to endorse it, not to say that none exists. Maybe Dubya needs to contact you and get the conclusive evidence that so far he says doesn’t exist.
Bush didn’t “make an admission” that said no links at all, you mistate what he has said, and your use of Bush is a logical fallacy. Argument of an authority you don’t even agree with!
Any statements of the ‘no connection’ have been in context of ‘operation linkage’ and 9/11. Why? Because to claim that there was no link at all is disproven by multiple examples of links! Did Bush ever say “No, saddam didn’t actually help Al qaeda with weapons training in 1995”. I’ve never seen that quote. But if you read the 9/11 commision report, that fact is in there, so even if a politician made a statement it would contradict that report. And it is also in other reports.
There are facts out there. If you aren’t willing to acknowledge those facts, there is not a discussion. You don’t seem interested in the truth, just making a bogus point.
DID YOU KNOW THIS? ...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/990ieqmb.asp
“SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support—temporarily, it seems—after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.
The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. “
There are connections. The truth will set you free...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/152lndzv.asp
http://www.amazon.com/Connection-Collaboration-Hussein-Endangered-America/dp/0060746734
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13903
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006934.php
US Govt document stated:
“In addition, 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.”
Argue all you want about the past.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda is Iraq now and Paul wants us to leave.