Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]>
The Saddam and Al Qaeda alleged links and training. The source of the information which led to the disastrous Iraq war. Answer: False information obtained by "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/mr-cheney-you-did-not-kee_b_203013.html Mario responds: Tsk, tsk, tsk. So much ignorance, so little time. The title of the article in the link above is "Mr. Cheney, You Did Not Keep Us Safe." Now, anyone with more than half a brain who has not been on an extended vacation on Mars would know that this title is bogus because Al Qaeda has been unable to attack the US again since 9/11/2001. Thus, the Bush administration did keep the US safe. Thus, starting with this absurd title, everything else in this left wing blog is equally bogus and designed to fool the gullible and the uninformed. This is not unusual for posts in this far left wing blog where Gilbert gets most of his bogus information. The Huffington Post has a well deserved reputation for encouraging blatant propaganda by far left wing apologists like Paul Begala. Begala's motive for falsifying information is that he was a senior advisor to Bill Clinton and would like everyone to forget that the administration he was a part of was substantially responsible for creating the conditions that allowed the attack on 9/11 to take place, by a) not responding to the series of attacks on us throughout the 90s, b) refusing to accept Osama Bin Laden from Sudan because Bill Clinton, who used every legal trick in the book on his own behalf, could not conjure up a "probable cause" to hold him even though Bin Laden had claimed responsibility for several of the attacks on us by then [Source: Mansoor Ijaz, Sudan's go-between], c) refusing to give the CIA the order to shoot THIRTEEN times when they had him in their sights in Afghanistan [Source: CIA agent-in-charge, Michael Scheuer], d) raising the walls between the CIA and the FBI, and e) banning the CIA from gathering intel from "unsavory" characters, the only ones who have any real intel. The alleged relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda had been established well before Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was interrogated. Ansar al Islam, an Al Qaeda subsidiary, had training camps in Iraq for years. Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarkawi was treated in Iraq after he was injured in Afghanistan. These were not close working relationships on terrorism, but they were relationships nevertheless. The concern over the relationship was that Saddam's WMDs would get into Al Qaeda's hands, who might use it in a worse suicide attack on the US than 9/11. Gilbert seems to suggest in his post that the relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda was the key reason for the regime change in Iraq. This is itself false. There were a number of reasons for the regime change in Iraq that were listed in the joint U.S. House-Senate resolution in October 2002 which authorized the President of the U.S to use U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq. Those interested in the truth, which would exclude Huffington Post bloggers and those who believe their propaganda, would have known about this important resolution: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/bliraqreshouse.htm
