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| 2004-06-18 |
| via The Boston Herald - EFL Login, if needed: broomfondle / broomfondle Wow! This gets the Non-Idiotarian Award for the day! By Boston Herald editorial staff Friday, June 18, 2004 The 9/11 Commission is once again engaged in partisan word games that have little to do with their supposed mission and everything to do with bringing down the Bush administration. It’s a tried and true technique: Set up the proverbial straw man, then knock him down. So when the commission finds, "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States," it is logical to ask, who said it did? Never, in all the months leading up to the war in Iraq, did President Bush or Secretary of State Colin Powell or anyone in the administration make that allegation. In fact, last September Bush said quite explicitly, "No, we’ve had no evidence Saddam Hussein was involved in Sept. 11." On the other hand, Bush has also been clear before the war and now that as he said on Feb. 8, 2003, "Saddam Hussein has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist networks." And from this John Kerry concludes Bush "misled" the American people? Its straw-man technique aside, the commission report at times appears hopelessly naive in its attempt to exonerate Saddam and find him innocent of further links to Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network. ...more... I love it when they do the truth thing... |
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| #3 National Review Online had an excellent analysis on the report - June 17. |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-06-18 7:01:49 PM |
| #2 National Review had an excellent analysis on the report - June 17. |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-06-18 7:01:24 PM |
| #1 So when the commission finds, "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States,".. Wasn't this "commission" formed with the intent to investigate the local and national governmental crisis response to the 2001 attacks, identify shortcomings, and evaluate preparedness for possible future events? If so, why should they even give a rat's ass about whether there was Iraq/Al-Qaida cooperation? Would the outcome of the attacks really have been any different otherwise? If there ever was any evidence that this commission is a colossal waste of time, this irrelevant "finding" of non-cooperation between Hussein and Al-Qaida has to be it. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 1:20:31 PM |