--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 7/9/06 8:07:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jstein@ writes: > > > > > > Nobody I know of in government ever said Saddam was involved in > > > any aspect > > > > of 911. > > > > > > Correct. You do not know Bush, Cheney, Ruimsfeld, Rice, etc. > > > > "On September the 11th, 2001, we found that problems originating > > in a failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away could bring > > murder and destruction to our country." > > > > --George W. Bush, State of the Union, January 2006 > > > > That is a long way from saying Saddam was involved in 911.
No, it's not very long at all. The "failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away" immediately invokes Iraq, and that is what it's *intended* to do. In > > fact it suggests the lack of freedom in countries run by tyrants > > in the middle east breeds terrorists. "We have no evidence that > > Saddam Hussein was involved with 11 September attacks." Bush > > 2003. You can't get any cleared than that. Right, you can't. But you can keep delivering innuendos like the one above in the hope of reinforcing the previously planted impressions. > Countered by hundreds of mentions of Saddam and 9/11 in the same > breath. If the tabacco companies tried to get away with that by > associating Koolness with youth with tabacco, they would be sued. > > Oh wait, they were and they lost. Bush, unfortunately, can't be > sued for using advertising gimmicks in political speech. "In his prime-time press conference last week, which focused almost solely on Iraq, President Bush mentioned Sept. 11 eight times. He referred to Saddam Hussein many more times than that, often in the same breath with Sept. 11. Bush never pinned blame for the attacks directly on the Iraqi president. Still, the overall effect was to reinforce an impression that persists among much of the American public: that the Iraqi dictator did play a direct role in the attacks.... The White House appears to be encouraging this false impression, as it seeks to maintain American support for a possible war against Iraq." --Christian Science Monitor, March 14, 2003 A few examples among many: Bush speech, October 2002: "We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. "We've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America. . . . Confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror." "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, 2001. . . . The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of Al Qaeda. . . . Our war against terror is proceeding according to the principles that I have made clear to all: Any person involved in committing or planning terrorist attacks against the American people becomes an enemy of this country and a target of American justice." Bush "Mission Accomplished" speech, May 1, 2003: "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th -- the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got." "If we're successful in Iraq.we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." [NBC's Meet the Press, 9/14/03] Bush speech, September 11, 2003: "We're going to a church service to remember the victims, pray for their families, victims of 9/11, 2001. Today, this afternoon, Laura and I are here to thank the brave souls who got wounded in the war on terror, people who are willing to sacrifice in order to make sure that attacks such as Sept. 11 don't happen again." Cheney on Meet the Press, September 14, 2003: "If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11 . . . "So what we do on the ground in Iraq, our capabilities here are being tested in no small measure, but this is the place where we want to take on the terrorists. This is the place where we want to take on those elements that have come against the United States, and it's far more appropriate for us to do it there and far better for us to do it there than it is here at home." Bush speech, June 2005: "They are trying to shake our will in Iraq - just as they tried to shake our will on September 11, 2001. "The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden." In the first weeks after 9/11, fewer than 10 percent of Americans suggested to poll takers that Saddam was the source of the terrorist attacks. However, after the constant accusations and insinuations by the Bush administration, the number soared. A February 2003 poll found that 72 percent of Americans believed that Saddam was "personally involved in the September 11 attacks." A January 2003 poll found that almost half of Americans believed that one or more of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi even though not a single hijacker hailed from that country. 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