That was then.
Now they say Iran is building nuclear weapon.
Want to believe that too?
Supposed they attack Iran and manage to topple the current regime. After that
when being pressured to show evidence that Iran is building the weapon, they
will blame the intelligence for giving them false/ inadequate evidence. Anyway,
in any case suppose that they win the war, they will stay in Iran for unknown
years. Does this sound familiar?
My question is, for how long Muslims need to be cheated?
Adakah kita ini bodo macam lembu yang boleh dicucuk hidung dan dibawa kesana
kemari.
>>> syed dahij 11/09/2006 01:19:55 >>>
US Senate Intelligence report finds no Saddam-Al Qaeda link
Sat | Sep 09, 06 | 06:42:35 PM
Oleh KT WASHINGTON, Sept 9 - Saddam Hussein rejected
overtures from Al Qaeda and believed Islamic extremists were a threat to his
regime, a reverse portrait of an Iraq allied with Osama bin Laden painted by
the Bush White House, a Senate panel has found.
The administration's version was based in part on intelligence that White
House officials knew was flawed, according to Democrats on the Senate
Intelligence Committee, citing newly declassified documents released by the
panel.
The report, released Friday, discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA
assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a
relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward" Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab
Al Zarqawi or his associates.
As recently as an Aug. 21 news conference, Bush said people should "imagine a
world in which you had Saddam Hussein" with the capacity to make weapons of
mass destruction and "who had relations with Zarqawi."
Democrats singled out CIA Director George Tenet, saying that during a private
meeting in July Tenet told the panel that the White House pressured him and
that he agreed to back up the administration's case for war despite his own
agents' doubts about the intelligence it was based on.
"Tenet admitted to the Intelligence Committee that the policymakers wanted him
to 'say something about not being inconsistent with what the president had
said,"' Intelligence Committee member Carl Levin, D-Mich., told reporters
Friday.
Tenet also told the committee that complying had been "the wrong thing to do,"
according to Levin.
"Well, it was much more than that," Levin said. "It was a shocking abdication
of a CIA director's duty not to act as a shill for any administration or its
policy."
Leaders of both parties accused each other of seeking political gain on the eve
of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Republicans said the document contained little new information about prewar
intelligence or postwar findings on Iraq's weapons and connection to terrorist
groups.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, a Republican, accused Democrats of
trying to "use the committee ... insisting that they were deliberately duped
into supporting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime."
"That is simply not true," Roberts added, "and I believe the American people
are smart enough to recognize election-year politicking when they see it."
Congressional elections are in November.
The report speaks for itself, Democrats said.
The administration "exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in
the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading a large majority of
Americans to believe * contrary to the intelligence assessments at the time *
that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks," said Senator Jay Rockefeller, the
top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee.
Still, Democrats were reluctant to say how the administration officials
involved should be called to account.
Asked whether the wrongdoing amounted to criminal conduct, Levin and
Rockefeller declined to answer. Rockefeller said later he did not believe Bush
should be impeached over the matter.
According to the report, postwar findings indicate that Saddam "was distrustful
of Al Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime." It quotes
an FBI report from June 2004 in which former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz
said in an interview that "Saddam only expressed negative sentiments about bin
Laden."
Saddam himself is quoted in an FBI summary as acknowledging that the Iraqi
government had met with bin Laden but denying that he had colluded with the Al
Qaeda leader. Claiming that Iraq opposed only US policies, Saddam said that "if
he wanted to cooperate with the enemies of the US, he would have allied with
North Korea or China," the report quotes the FBI document.
The Democrats said that on Oct. 7, 2002, the day Bush gave a speech speaking of
that link, the CIA had sent a declassified letter to the committee saying it
would be an "extreme step" for Saddam to assist Islamist terrorists in
attacking the United States.
Levin and Rockefeller said Tenet in July acknowledged to the committee that
subsequently issuing a statement that there was no inconsistency between the
president's speech and the CIA viewpoint had been a mistake.
They also charged Bush with continuing to cite faulty intelligence in his
argument for war as recently as last month.
The report said that Al Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda leader killed by a US airstrike
last June, was in Baghdad from May 2002 until late November 2002. But "postwar
information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate
and capture Al Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with,
harbor or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi."
In June 2004, Bush also defended Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that
Saddam had "long-established ties" with Al Qaeda. "Zarqawi is the best evidence
of connection to Al Qaeda affiliates and Al Qaeda," the president said.
The report concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence
community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed
biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological
warfare agents.
A second part of the report finds that false information from the Iraqi
National Congress, an anti-Saddam group led by then-exile Ahmed Chalabi, was
used to support key intelligence community assessments on Iraq. - mks.
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