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| Kerry's position on Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda has nothing to do with truth |
| 2004-09-22 |
| YESTERDAY, John Kerry repeated what has become a standard Kerry-Edwards campaign talking point: Saddam's Iraq had "no ties to al Qaeda," or, as Kerry recently told Time, Saddam Hussein had "nothing to do with al Qaeda." These statements are false. Numerous reports, ranging from those of the September 11 Commission to the Senate Intelligence Committee, have detailed a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda. In July, the co-chairman of the September 11 Commission, Governor Thomas Kean, stated "there was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." Or consider this, from the memoir of the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, General Tommy Franks, American Soldier: "One known terrorist, a Jordanian-born Palestinian named Abu Musab Zarqawi who had joined al Qaeda in Afghanistan--where he specialized in developing chemical and biological weapons--was now confirmed to operate from one of the camps in Iraq. Badly wounded fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan, Zarqawi had received medical treatment in Baghdad before setting up with Ansar al Islam. And evidence suggested that he had been joined there by other al Qaeda leaders, who had been ushered through Baghdad and given safe passage into northern Iraq by Iraqi security forces. . . . [p. 332] And while many al Qaeda leaders had been killed [in Afghanistan], others had sought sanctuary in Iraq. [p. 403]"People can disagree over the necessity of gong to war to remove Saddam. But they should not deny facts in order to make it easier to sell their particular policy position. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 This appeared in the Armed Forces Information Service's Current News Early Bird on Monday. "Rumsfeld told reporters he agreed with Secretary of State Colin Powell about Iraq's lack of weapons or ties to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Defense Department released a transcript Friday of a press conference Tuesday in Fort Campbell, Ky. "Secretary of State Powell, recently on NBC's 'Meet the Press' said that he found - wanted to set the record straight once and for all," said an unidentified reporter. "There were no weapons of mass destruction and he found no correlation between 9/11 and the former Iraqi regime. My question to you, sir, is do you agree with that statement?" "Yes," Rumsfeld replied. " This originally appeared on WSJ.com Let the flaming begin... |
| Posted by: Dakotah 2004-09-22 1:05:36 PM |
| #6 LLL "Talking Points" are never retracted, never retired from the list, never apologized for, no matter how thoroughly disproven. It (along with a few other things the Kerry campaign are doing) is also straight out of the '92 playbook. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-09-22 11:33:38 AM |
| #5 LLL "Talking Points" are never retracted, never retired from the list, never apologized for, no matter how thoroughly disproven. Once a meme is established, it becomes the burden of the sane to constantly repeat the litany of evidence which disproves it... while the loonies move on to new insane memes. Most talking-head shows now consist of the Dhimmidonk derailing any inconvenient question(s) posed, by tossing in a few loonie memes - and the remainder of the time is spent debunking them and attempting to get back on track. Wasted time, the lot, for they never admit anything, no matter how trivial or how overwhelming the evidence may be. Dialog, even at the most civil and learned level, has been rendered moot, utterly pointless and deprived of practical value or significance. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-22 10:27:32 AM |
| #4 Tell a lie long enough and it becomes truth. Kerry must really believe that. |
| Posted by: nada 2004-09-22 9:15:29 AM |
| #3 "How does Kerry get away with this shit?" Have you written your local (and state-wide) newspapers refuting this lately? Not everyone reads this blog (just the more intelligent people). |
| Posted by: John Simmins 2004-09-22 9:04:48 AM |
| #2 Simple, it is a resonance issue with some people. Shitheads would always accept shit by default. |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-22 4:12:55 AM |
| #1 How does Kerry get away with this shit? |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-09-22 4:07:23 AM |