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2006-09-08 Iraq

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Posted by tipper 2006-09-08 14:02|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is the MSM flogging a (yet another) never-alive horse.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-08 15:03|| 2006-09-08 15:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't matter.

The only person still at large from the 1993 WTC attack was a guest of Saddam's. Most of Black September were guests of Saddam's. Lots of terrorists were his guests, and many who didn't live in Baghdad were getting cash from him.

"Saddam Hussein was distrustful of Al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from Al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support," said the report.

This is pure BS. Which Democrat authored this "report"?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-08 15:05|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-08 15:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe if we draw diagrams with crayon? "THIS is Zarqawi. THIS is the money. THESE are the training camps (note the scribbles of guns in them.) And this big-headed fanged one is Saddam! Why yes Senator Schumer, you can draw blood dripping from his fangs. I see you have your own crayons. Go right ahead..."

*sniff* *sniff* Are my allergies flaring or has the political landscape started to heat up?

Posted by Bennie 2006-09-08 15:08|| 2006-09-08 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee, ya mean Sammy didn't trust a bunch of bomb-throwing religous nutbags? What a shocker. Doesn't mean he wouldn't USE tham, however.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-09-08 15:32|| 2006-09-08 15:32|| Front Page Top

#5 How does this very dubious assertion square with the evidence of Iraqi envoys meeting with AQ in Sudan and Afghanistan, and senior AQ reps visiting as guests of the regime in this city (Baghdad)? The documentation of these contacts - I recall one memo that even made it into the NYT ended with the Iraqi intel official saying that the relationship should be allowed to develop - is not skimpy, and I haven't heard that any of it, much less all of it, had turned out to be fraudulent.

I also find it extremely dubious that Zarq was here - and "operating" to the extent that he made phone calls to the operatives who murdered USAID official Foley in Amman - and that the regime couldn't locate him.

And what about the reported agreemend by Saddam to broadcast anti-Saudi radio programming? Or am I misremembering that?

As usual, the WH and other GOP are utterly clueless about information and communications. Poor old Tony Snow says "nothing new" and "let's focus on the future". Why is it so difficult for these people to realize that you can say that, PLUS debunk a slanderous falsehood just raised against you? It's not about them - but the public is so misinformed partly because the falsehoods are relentlessly pounded into the public through the MSM.

As I'm oddly not habituated to the various outrages that now seem like part of the landscape, I again have to express my disgust and astonishment with the two clueless clowns (Levin and Rockefeller), and their party leadership, for continuing to push the preposterous and poisonous nonsense about the admin. being "deceptive". It has from the start been a ridiculous and amazingly irresponsible bit of slander. And I thought this had been earlier confirmed by a lengthy SSCI investigation - i.e., that the intel estimates were flawed for operational and analytical reasons, not political ones.

The damage to the cause arising from the imperturbable passivity of the admin. in setting the record straight is appalling.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-09-08 16:42|| 2006-09-08 16:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes I wonder if the passivity on the part of the administration isn't part of the strategic game plan.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-09-08 20:55|| 2006-09-08 20:55|| Front Page Top

#7 If you discover this is the case, plesae publish the plan. I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see or hear of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-08 21:03|| 2006-09-08 21:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I call bullsh*t on this article, but then again what would I know?
More than the senate apparently. At least I'm not alone.

Posted by JerseyMike 2006-09-08 21:25|| 2006-09-08 21:25|| Front Page Top

#9 ABC news took this and made a big story out if it on the evening news -- stating it as **FACT**.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-09-08 21:46|| 2006-09-08 21:46|| Front Page Top

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