laughing dog
03-24-2008, 04:06 PM
The following Newsweek article ( Saddam's Files (http://www.newsweek.com/id/128620) ) points out that the DoD search through 1000s of secret Iraqi files did not show
1) any mention assassination attempt on George Bush
Given how much the Iraqis did document, "you would have thought there would have been some veiled reference to something about [the plot]."
2) an operational link with Al-Qaeda
There were also no records showing what the report called a "smoking gun" connection between Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda—one of the principal claims made by the White House to advance the case for war.
3) a link to the 1993 WTC bombing
For years Bush administration officials like Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz charged that Iraq had given "sanctuary" to Yasin, suggesting that the regime may have been complicit in the 1993 bombing. But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the "Zionists" or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it
Just more circumstantial evidence showing how quickly and eagerly this administration jumped into war.
1) any mention assassination attempt on George Bush
Given how much the Iraqis did document, "you would have thought there would have been some veiled reference to something about [the plot]."
2) an operational link with Al-Qaeda
There were also no records showing what the report called a "smoking gun" connection between Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda—one of the principal claims made by the White House to advance the case for war.
3) a link to the 1993 WTC bombing
For years Bush administration officials like Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz charged that Iraq had given "sanctuary" to Yasin, suggesting that the regime may have been complicit in the 1993 bombing. But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the "Zionists" or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it
Just more circumstantial evidence showing how quickly and eagerly this administration jumped into war.