searching the Hof archives for Fox News is bringing up a bunch of spam
messages for some reason. Seaching the news archives of the
Albuquerque papers brings up a bunch of references to the Mexican
politician.
But.
This seems to be the original report:
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Media_10_02_03_Report.pdf
The following news story about the report says that it attributes some
of the misperceptions to administration officials but I have not been
through the whole report.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm?1c
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:55:55 -0400
Subject: RE: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't see any place where the commission is differing from what Cheney is
saying:
"We have not discovered collaboration-cooperation between al-Qaida and Iraq
in general terrorist activities across the world, against the United
States."
Iraq never helped al-Qaida plan attacks against the US, this doesn't mean
that any al-Qaida members in Iraq weren't planning attacks against the US or
American interests, and it doesn't mean Iraq didn't know about it, or that
Iraq didn't help al-Qaida plan attacks against other countries or other
areas.
Like I said, the 9/11 Commission is very specific, their goal was to
understand more about 9/11, things that didn't directly relate to 9/11 don't
fall within their scope. I would love to see a Iraq/Terrorist Commission,
with pertinent information regarding Iraq and terrorism.
Nothing the Administration is saying is conflicting with what the
Administration or VP Cheney is saying, however the media is taking things
out of context when they make their headlines, and that all people read
anymore are the headlines.
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From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:35 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
skimming through the news at lunch indicates you are at least
partially wrong - the commission is not saying there is a link between
al-Qaeda and Iraq. At all.
``Our position is firm, unchanged and committed to our previous
finding,'' said Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana. ``We have
not discovered collaboration-cooperation between al-Qaida and Iraq in
general terrorist activities across the world, against the United
States.''
the above quote from a commission spokeperson was found at
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Sept-11-Commission.html
I do seem to recall that the news stories that covered the divergence
between perceptions of Fox viewers and actual events cited statements
by the president but hey... let me see if I can substantiate that. I
think that I think Bush is a liar because of stories like this but I
suppose it is just barely possible that I remember wrong because I
think Bush is a liar... It will take a little more digging than I have
time for right now to be sure but I *will* look. It should be in the
archives actually, I posted the article at the time.
Dana
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:13:09 -0400, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "The vice president critiqued some press coverage of the staff report. He
> did not criticize the commission's work."
>
> That line pretty much sums it up, the commission and Cheney are both
> criticizing the press reports not the commission's findings, the
commission
> did find links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, just not with regard to Sept
11th.
>
> The media always claims the administration claimed Iraq helped them plan
the
> attacks, but I don't recall the administration ever saying that, only that
> Saddam did allow some Al Qaeda to live and operate from Iraq, these are
> items the commission's report never denies as that is out of the scope of
> their investigation.
>
> They are the 9/11 commission, not the Al Qaeda/Iraq link commission.
>
> _____
>
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:21 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
>
>
>
> From this morning's Washington Post:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32309-2004Jul6.html
>
> 9/11 Panel Defends Intelligence
> Commissioners Had Access to Same Sources as
Cheney________________________________
>
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