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Republican controlled Senate finds Hussain wasn't allied with AL Quaeda

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by MarinJohn, Sep 9, 2006.

  1. MarinJohn

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    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...-home-headlines

    In a long-awaited report, the committee instead determined that the former Iraqi dictator was wary of Al Qaeda; repeatedly rebuffed requests from its leader, Osama bin Laden, for assistance; and sought to capture Zarqawi when the terrorist turned up in Baghdad.

    The findings are the latest in a series of high-profile studies to dispute some of the Bush administration's key arguments for invading Iraq — mainly that the Hussein regime possessed stockpiles of banned weapons and had cultivated ties to terrorist networks. Presenting these since-discredited allegations as fact, President Bush and other high-ranking officials argued that Hussein's government posed an intolerable risk in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

    http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
     
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    No Saddam-Al Qaida link.

    ""Tenet admitted to the Intelligence Committee that the policymakers wanted him to 'say something about not being inconsistent with what the president had said,'" Intelligence Committee member Carl Levin, D-Mich., told reporters Friday.

    Tenet also told the committee that complying had been "the wrong thing to do," according to Levin.

    "Well, it was much more than that," Levin said. "It was a shocking abdication of a CIA director's duty not to act as a shill for any administration or its policy.""

    Anyone have any guess as to what the new company line will be to justify our invasion of Iraq?
     
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    Administration line has already been rolled out but is diversion to the 14 high placed Al Queada members formerly held in the non-existant CIA prison camps and questioned using alternative interogation techniques.

    This while they think of something to say about Iraq
     
  4. MarinJohn

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    Isn't it interesting and disingenious that the neocons attack any post that is a quote of an OPINION, they constantly want "Proof" of anything resembling a disagreement with their talking points, but when one posts/cites references upfront they are silent on the topic?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ Sep 9 2006, 09:58 AM) [snapback]316998[/snapback]</div> Isn't all of this old news and Democrats are just trying to dig up another skeleton to parade for this Congressional elections pass? After all, we've had this very detailed documentary 'Dark Side' about how Cheney and Rumsfield have being changing the government since during the Nixon years, and it's just been business as usual.

    There doesn't seem to be much reaction to Dark Side so one could assume the American public sheep really don't care that the war on Iraq is disingenuous, no matter what the polls currently say. If it was actually something, there would be much furor/reaction for some impeachment or resignations, but nada, nope, don't care..
     
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    We should be trying to capture Osama, but, wait, no, Bush explicitly ordered the military to back off going after OBL, maybe because he didn't want to offend Pakistan....but Pakistan has made an agreement with the Taliban to not go after them as long as the Taliban don't mess with Pakistanis or Pakistani targets.

    Now, George is suddenly, on the eve of an election, all hot and bothered about Osama and his alleged plan to create an "Islamo-fascist Caliphate" across the Middle East. If Osama were such a threat WHY hasn't Bush gone after him? Why waste our energies bombing an innocent third world country back even further into the third world? After President Quixote and Sancho Cheney have finished challenging Iraqi windmills, China can assume the mantel of world leadership because we will be spent.

    Anyone whose memory of events is longer than the 6 weeks the government thinks is our memory span, will find endless bits of hypocracy, duplicity, corruption and incompetence. I'm not sure what's worse: a government that spouts these lies, or the public/press that lets the lies go unchallenged.

    For God's sake, the man lied to get us into a useless war that has drained our economy and made us the most hated nation on the planet, not to mention giving OBL a HUGE recruitment tool. Is this not news???? Is this not an impeachable offense? Why is a blow job in the White House more of an issue with these moral midgets in Congress than a bloody war?