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| 2004-01-14 | |
| A leading US Democrat and presidential hopeful has said in a press conference that al-Qaida was not connected to the 11 September attacks. Speaking in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, Wesley Clark said that the US president took the country to war for party-ideological reasons. The former four star general accused George Bush of invading Iraq without adequate reason or justification. "I think it was a strategic mistake and wrong for America." Clark added that nothing said by the intelligence services to date had proven any connection between the Islamist organisation and the destruction of the World Trade Towers. Remarks by CIA chief George Tenet did not prove "that al-Qaida was involved in 9/11. I did not believe then that al-Qaida was invovled in 9/11 ... I do not believe it now." Al-Jazeera may be messing with the quotes here, but this puts him into pure kook territory if it’s true ...
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 Hey, Wes. If you ever have to launch those missles someday, you won't get to step back up to the microphone for a do over. Thank christ we'll never see that. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-14 9:03:18 PM |
| #6 Oy. If General Weasel is in Texas, maybe the Mad Shitter will find his way onto the tour bus and leave him a present. I can't believe this guy. I'm embarassed to have been in 3d brigade when he was a colonel. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-14 7:36:24 PM |
| #5 Aljazeera: No connection to the truth. As Dave reported, General Stupid returned immediately to the microphone to correct himself. Al Jizz must have known that. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-1-14 7:27:42 PM |
| #4 one of the few things that the clinton admin got right - firing clark's ass after the fiasco in pristina...... |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-1-14 5:39:38 PM |
| #3 FoxNews reported this last night; Clark corrected himself right after this statement, saying he'd meant "Saddam Hussein", not "Al Qaeda". Al Jizzers, in their endless quest for truth, apparently thought it appropriate to snip Clark's correction. But Clark's still an ass, in my book. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-1-14 5:23:35 PM |
| #2 Actually, for Clark this is quite believable, and par for the course. Look for him to claim he didn't say it, and then when confronted with the evidence, claim he didn't mean it. It's no surprise that this man gets along so well with the Clintons.... |
| Posted by: Captain Holly 2004-1-14 5:22:31 PM |
| #1 Either tha Al Jism correspondent in Somalia is chewing Qat again or the goog General has been smoking funny cigarettes |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-1-14 5:20:13 PM |