Bush Now Says
US is at war in Iraq for Sept 11 attacks
AFP, Washington
The United States is at war in Iraq because of the September 11, 2001 attacks, US President George W. Bush said yesterday.
"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/19/d506191308106.htmAnd yet bush will continue denying he's trying to tie Iraq to the 911 attacks. So you ARE deeply worried about your in-the-shithole ratings after all, huh bush. Gotta get back to spreading the lie that Iraq had something to do with 911! LIE LIE LIE TERRA TERRA TERRA! It's the bush way of ruling!
And just for the still-stoopid rightwingnuts;
Sky News (London): "One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?"Bush: "I can't make that claim.'
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030131-23.htmlBush: No evidence Saddam Hussein involved in Nine-Eleven attackshttp://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1447698 Rice: U.S. Never Said Saddam Was Behind 9/11http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/983821/posts Rumsfeld sees no link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-16-rumsfeld-iraq-911_x.htmWolfowitz: Iraq Was Not Involved In 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, No Ties To Al-Qaedahttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4372.htmBrent Scowcroft, one of the Republican Party’s most respected foreign policy advisors;"Don't Attack Saddam. It would undermine our antiterror efforts. There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133Allies Find No Links Between Iraq, Al Qaeda"What I'm asked is if I've seen any evidence of that. (Iraq links to al Qaeda) And the answer is: I haven't.” -British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who supports U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq.]
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-noqaeda4nov04,0,4538810.storyBritish Intelligence agencies, MI6 and MI5A dossier prepared by the two agencies “showed no discernible links between Iraq and al-Qaida,”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=375403Richard Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who lead an internal review of the CIA's prewar intelligence;“the CIA has not found any proof of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime.”
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=800The White House’s own publication, A Decade of Defiance and Deception, makes no mention of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect5.htmlThe 2002 congressional joint intelligence committee’s report on the Sept. 11 attacks revealed that the Bush administration had no evidence to support its claim that Saddam’s government was supporting al-Qaeda. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030723-064812-9491rNo proof links Iraq, al-Qaida, Powell sayshttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3909150 According to a "top secret British document", quoted by the BBC, "there is nothing but enmity between Iraq and Al Qaeda." The BBC said the leak came from intelligence officials upset that their work was being used to justify war." (quoted in Daily News, New York, 6 February 2003).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303D.html Three former Bush administration officials who worked on intelligence and national security issues have told National Journal that the prewar evidence tying al Qaeda to Iraq was tenuous, exaggerated, and often at odds with the conclusions of key intelligence agencies.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0803/080803nj2.htm "…analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said."
and…
"At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden|s network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D1EF83E5C0C718CDDAB0894DB404482This is consistent with what they were saying back in October 2002.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A14056-2002Oct24"There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever."-Richard Clarke, former terrorism chief under bush.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtmlIraq-al Qaeda ties have not been foundBush administration hyped sketchy and false evidence to push for war
The Bush administration’s claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda — one of the administration’s central arguments for a pre-emptive war — appears to have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration’s claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
Nearly a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq,
no evidence has turned up to verify allegations of Saddam’s links with al Qaeda, and several key parts of the administration’s case have either proved false or seem increasingly doubtful.http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/2004/03/04/news/nation/8101079.htmIraq and al Qaeda: What Evidence?http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=23816bush's own hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. David Kay;David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all."
He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link, as being "evidence free."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/06/16/bush_backs_cheney_on_assertion_linking_hussein_al_qaedaIsraeli intelligence (the Moussad)“According to Israeli intelligence, Palestinians are still not connected to the global terror network, and neither is Iraq.”
http://www.haaretz.com /
bush's second and final hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. Charles Dueffler;Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq, no capability since 1991, no evidence of ties to al Qaeda, no serious threat;
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/06/1096949583023.html?from=storylhshttp://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/OFFICIAL VERDICT: WHITE HOUSE MISLED WORLD OVER SADDAM-AL QAEDA TIEShttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0617-03.htm No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commissionhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/06/cheney.911 "CIA Review Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists" http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1005-01.htm NO ties between Iraq and international terrorists, al-Qaeda or otherwise:1. Central to the Saddam - al Qaeda connection claim is the assertion that Czech authorities had evidence of a meeting between one of the September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001.
Both Czech President Vaclav Havel and Czech intelligence refuted this report.
http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/2155.htmlMore than that, so do the FBI and CIA; Only one problem with that story, the FBI pointed out. Atta was traveling at the time between Florida and Virginia Beach, Va. (The bureau had his rental car and hotel receipts)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/060203A.shtmlThis lie of BushCo's was debunked last year. But to this day, members of the Administration cite the Prague report as evidence of an Iraq - al Qaeda connection.
2. Cheney also claimed that 1993 World Trade Center bombing co-conspirator Abdul Rahman Yasin had received “financing” and “safe haven” from Saddam’s government.
You have to really love this one...yeah he did. Sort of. He was in an Iraqi JAIL from 1994 until shortly before the invasion;
"He was being clothed and fed by them so long as he wore stripes,” joked one U.S. investigator.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067794/Yasin had hopped onto a plane for Iraq. He was picked up by the Iraqi police a year later and had been held without a charge placed against him. Iraq had twice offered to deliver him to the United States, but only upon written receipt that Iraq had given him up… "like a receipt for a FedEx package"
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg00755.htmlbut the US refused the offer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2022991.stmYasin was picked up by the FBI a few days after the bombing in an apartment in Jersey City, N.J., that he was sharing with his mother. He was so helpful and cooperative, giving the FBI names and addresses, that they released him.
Yasin says he was even driven back home in an FBI car.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/31/60minutes/main510795.shtmlThe FBI agree, saying they decided to let Yasin go free.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/31/60minutes/main510795.shtmlYasin, whose picture is on the FBI Web site along with Osama bin Laden, is one of President Bush’s 22 most-wanted terrorists.
3. Ansar al-Islam, a radical Kurdish group, whose leader lives a free man in Norway, after 2 FBI interrogations found nothing to even declare him an "enemy combatant".
Of course there's that other pesky little fact, that Ansar al lives in the Kurdish north of Iraq, out of Saddam's control and under Kurdish AND AMERICAN control for the past 13 years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/85957.htmlhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO302B.htmlIraq had no ties to al Qaeda, and nothing to do with the 911 attacks; so would a bush-supporting moran please explain why bush is suddenly again LYING by implying Iraq was involved with the 911 attacks?
And yes, his "We went to war because we were attacked..." is clearly a LIE.
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