The verdict? Take a look. This comes to us from the McClatchy papers:
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.No evidence.
Of course we were told otherwise:
Then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed in September 2002 that the United States had "bulletproof" evidence of cooperation between the radical Islamist terror group and Saddam's secular dictatorship.I wonder if Stephen Hayes will be submitting any sort of mea culpa. I mean he's the guy who wrote:
OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.That memo was written by Douglas Feith and now the Pentagon itself is saying what that is.
Just. Plain. Wrong.
UPDATE: Douglas Feith has a new book out. This is what Keith Olbermann said about it this evening:
And so on. Take a look. It starts at about a minute in:The undersecretary of defense, most of who's nightmares made it into the planning of the Iraq war. He's got a new book in which he blames General Tommy Franks for not being interested in post-invasion planning, says Colin Powel tried to cut the Dove/Hawk issue both ways and claims Condi Rice screwed up the coordination of war policy.
Oh and he says that the President told the National Security Council "War is inevitable." On December 18, 2002. Meaning all of Mr Bush's subsequent hand-wringing and lamentations about the uncertainty of peace versus war were, well, lies.
When you get thrown under the bus by Douglas Feith, you're on your way to becoming a footnote in history.
Yesterday, Messrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Feith, C.H., John K., and XRanger supported another eight troops by providing them with black plastic uniforms to wear home.
ReplyDeleteThe new uniforms fit rather loosely, but then so do the given reasons for this war fit rather loosely with the facts.
This report was done by a think tank which was commissioned by the Pentagon, so you lean a little to heavily on the "pentagon report" thing. Either way, doesn't matter, this report is junk because my book exposes Saddam's documents that connect him to al Qaeda.
ReplyDeleteRay Robison is the author of Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents
http://www.bothinonetrench.com
Once again, Shitrock is only bringing up part of the situation. For those of you who consider this "nothing but a civil war", consider this as well.
ReplyDeleteYes, Al-Qaeda (or AQI affiliated) murdered five U.S. soldiers yesterday in Baghdad, along with a tribal Sheikh in a separate attack in Diyala. But what else is happening in the world? Less than 24 hours later, truck bombs devastated a counter-terror office in Eastern Pakistan, killing over 30 people. In Tunisia, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (N. Africa) claimed responsibility for abducting two Austrian tourists. Also, let's not forget that Israel experienced one of its worst terror attacks in years last week, and an apparent unknown front has been opened up after China announced it thwarted a plot to attack the olympics and hijack a plane.
The fact that all of these events are happening at the same time debunks your nieve and incorrect assumptions that the horrific events we've seen in Iraq are nothing more than Iraqis fighting one another, doesn't it? All of these terrorists adhere to the same ideology, and employ the same murderous tactics, although you seem to think that Iraq's people are nothing but a bunch of angry murderers. Having met many Iraqis myself, I can tell you thats not true.
So what's your idea Shitrock? Leave Iraq now, cut support for Musharraf, give these people a nice place to set up camp, and then pretend nothing is happening while we only focus on issues here at home? Seriously, I'd like to hear it. If you think a plan like that would work, then you're in for a rude awakening.