Yes, This Again
In all of my years following this war, I’ve certainly read a lot of this sort of thing:
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein rejected Osama bin Laden's pleas for help and tried to capture terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi when he was in Iraq, a Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday found, casting further doubt on the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq.
President Bush and other administration officials repeatedly cited Saddam's alleged ties to Islamic terrorists as one reason to invade Iraq in March 2003.
So we see now that the Democratic Party has scored a few points on this one. Saddam rejected Osama at some point in time. But I have to ask then, if this is true, then why did Saddam even train soldiers for Al-Qaeda in the first place?
The 150-page report said the administration's claims were untrue. "Postwar findings indicate that 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," the report said.
The report was released along with a second one that said false information from the exile group Iraqi National Congress, led by Ahmad Chalabi, had been widely used to support intelligence assessments about Iraq's weapons and links to terrorism.
Intelligence officials repeatedly warned that the INC was unreliable, but White House officials ignored the warnings.
One beef I’ve had against this administration for a while: Bad intelligence. Very, very bad. The next president will hopefully be able to use more of the right intelligence to prosecute and lead the War on Terror.
The reports are part of a five-report study that the Senate Intelligence Committee has undertaken.
The study has left the committee badly divided. Three reports remain classified, including one comparing prewar statements by Bush administration officials to intelligence available at the time. Democrats have accused Republicans of delaying the reports until after the November congressional elections.
And here’s the part where the Democrats have made themselves look like harpies in suits, tossing allegations left and right in the White House. This is a scary world we live in sometimes.
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein rejected Osama bin Laden's pleas for help and tried to capture terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi when he was in Iraq, a Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday found, casting further doubt on the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq.
President Bush and other administration officials repeatedly cited Saddam's alleged ties to Islamic terrorists as one reason to invade Iraq in March 2003.
So we see now that the Democratic Party has scored a few points on this one. Saddam rejected Osama at some point in time. But I have to ask then, if this is true, then why did Saddam even train soldiers for Al-Qaeda in the first place?
The 150-page report said the administration's claims were untrue. "Postwar findings indicate that 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," the report said.
The report was released along with a second one that said false information from the exile group Iraqi National Congress, led by Ahmad Chalabi, had been widely used to support intelligence assessments about Iraq's weapons and links to terrorism.
Intelligence officials repeatedly warned that the INC was unreliable, but White House officials ignored the warnings.
One beef I’ve had against this administration for a while: Bad intelligence. Very, very bad. The next president will hopefully be able to use more of the right intelligence to prosecute and lead the War on Terror.
The reports are part of a five-report study that the Senate Intelligence Committee has undertaken.
The study has left the committee badly divided. Three reports remain classified, including one comparing prewar statements by Bush administration officials to intelligence available at the time. Democrats have accused Republicans of delaying the reports until after the November congressional elections.
And here’s the part where the Democrats have made themselves look like harpies in suits, tossing allegations left and right in the White House. This is a scary world we live in sometimes.
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