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Fool Me Once: Saddam Recycled as Nine Eleven Perp

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 2 July 2005
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Indeed, our Congress critters take us for morons. Obviously, we will believe anything these people tell us, as is evident by the fact most Americans bought the ludicrous Iraq invasion pretext hook, line, and sinker, hardly any questions asked. Now, in the wake of Bush’s speech, once again linking Iraq to the “war on terrorism” fantasy story, we are told by people supposedly in the know that Saddam was behind nine eleven, even though this has been repeatedly debunked as neocon nonsense. “Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,” Republican Robin Hayes tells CNN. “Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, ‘I’m sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places.’ ... Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not.” Somewhere in Washington, buried under a rock (in the front yard of the Office of Special Plans), is a passel of damning info on Saddam, or so it would seem, if we are to believe Hayes. In response to criticism that not even Bush’s nine eleven whitewash commission was able to connect the dots between Saddam and nine eleven, the North Carolina representative blustered, “Nobody disputes 9/11.They would do it again if not prevented.”

Well, of course, some of us dispute nine eleven-or the official campfire story of medieval Muslim cave dwellers pulling it off, anyway-but how do you respond to Congress critters, desperate to link the occupation of Iraq to Osama and crew, who claim we’re looking “in the wrong places,” as if the whole thing is some Easter egg hunt? You don’t. All you need to know is these guys will say anything now that support for the criminal invasion and occupation is slipping out of reach. Like pathological liars, their increasingly absurd lies exposed, the Bushcons tell even more lies, a phenomenon that has but one response: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... won’t get fooled again.

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  • From the "NO WAR on USA" web site (site closed now):

    "We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th." - G.W. Bush, Sept. 17, 2003

    Bush: Iraq, al Qaeda linked
    Powell offers to help Saddam find exile
    Thursday, January 30, 2003
    Posted 3:49 AM EST (0849 GMT)

    GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (CNN) — President Bush spent Wednesday trying to draw a link between a possible war in Iraq and the war against terrorism. He repeated accusations that Iraq is linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

    Bush said the removal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should be considered part of the war on terror "because of the nature of Saddam Hussein."

    "He is a danger not only to countries in the region but, as I explained last night, because of his al Qaeda connections, because of his history, he is a danger to Americans," Bush said, referring to Tuesday’s State of the Union address. "And we’re going to deal with him. We’re going to deal with him before it’s too late."

    [...]

    Posted by bogeyman on Usenet :

    No link between Saddam Hussein and September 11th

    > When did Bush or Cheney ever say otherwise?

    "With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region. And
    this Congress and the America people must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al-Qaida. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own."
    – President Bush, State of the Union Speech, Jan. 28, 2003.

    "But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants. . But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels
    of the radical organization Ansar al-Islam that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered al-Qaida safe haven in the region. We know members of both organizations met repeatedly and have met at least eight times at very senior
    levels since the early 1990s. In 1996, a foreign security service tells us that bin Laden met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Khartoum and later met the director of the Iraqi intelligence service. Saddam became more interested as he saw al-Qaida’s appalling attacks. A detained al-Qaida member tells us that Saddam was more willing to assist al-Qaida after the 1998
    bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Saddam was also impressed by al-Qaida’s attacks on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000."
    – Secretary of State Colin Powell, Statement to the U.N. Security Council, Feb. 5, 2003.

    "After the attacks of September the 11th, 2001, we will not allow grave threats to go unopposed. We are now working to locate and destroy Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. This is a historic
    moment. Just over a month ago, not all that long ago, a cruel dictator ruled a country, ruled Iraq by torture and fear. His regime was allied with terrorists, and the regime was armed with weapons of mass destruction. Today, that regime is no more."
    – President Bush, Speech to workers at Abrams tank plant in Lima, Ohio, April 24, 2003.

    "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 - and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men - the shock troops of a hateful ideology - gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their
    ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11th would be the ’beginning of the end of America.’ By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy
    this nation’s resolve, and force our retreat from the world. They have failed."
    – President Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003.

    "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that still goes on. al-Qaida is wounded, not destroyed. The scattered cells of the terrorist networks still operate in many nations. And we know from daily intelligence that they continue to plot against free people. The proliferation of deadly weapons remains a
    serious danger. The enemies of freedom are not idle, and neither are we. Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend our homeland and, more importantly, we will continue to hunt the
    enemy down before he can strike. No act of terrorists will change our purpose or weaken our resolve or alter their fate. Their cause is lost. Free nations will press on to victory."
    – President Bush, Weekly radio address, May 3, 2003.

    "I think that if you ask, do we know that he had a role in 9-11
    – No, we do not know that he had a role in 9-11. I think that this is a test that sets the bar far too high. I don’t think that we want to try and make the case that he directed somehow the 9-11 events."
    – National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Sept. 8, 2003.

    MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks.
    Are you surprised by that?

    VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.

    MR. RUSSERT: But is there a connection?

    VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don’t know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we
    didn’t have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we’ve learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida that stretched back
    through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaida sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the
    al-Qaida organization.

    We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of ’93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from
    the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.

    Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93 ? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive
    support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker,
    met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know.
    – Vice President Dick Cheney, Interview with NBC’s Tim Russert, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003.

    Bush Reports No Evidence of Hussein Tie to 9/11
    By DAVID E. SANGER (New York Times)

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - President Bush said today that he had seen no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as the White House tried to correct an assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney left extremely murky on Sunday.

    Mr. Cheney, on "Meet the Press" on NBC-TV, was asked about polls that showed that a majority of Americans believed that Mr. Hussein had been involved in the attacks.

    "I think it’s not surprising that people make that
    connection," said Mr. Cheney, who leads the hawkish wing of the Bush administration. Asked whether the connection existed, Mr. Cheney said, "We don’t know."

    He described Mr. Hussein’s reported connections to Al Qaeda, connections that American intelligence analysts say were not very deep.

    Mr. Bush, asked by a reporter today about that statement, said, "No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."