Well, technically, this counts as the same one he's been telling for
some time; the new angle is that now he's insisting that he never
told that lie in the first place.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50679-2004Jun17.html>
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/7xvco )
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Friday, June 18, 2004:
President Bush yesterday defended his assertions that there was a
relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al
Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week's finding of the bipartisan
Sept. 11 commission.
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between
Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship
between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting. As
evidence, he cited Iraqi intelligence officers' meeting with bin
Laden in Sudan. "There's numerous contacts between the two," Bush said.
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Contrast this with his flat-out assertion at his news conference on
Aug. 21, 2006:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/
AR2006082100469.html>
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/oroez )
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BUSH: You know, I've heard this theory about, you know, everything
was just fine until we arrived and -- you know, the stir-up-the-
hornet's- nest theory. It just doesn't hold water, as far as I'm
concerned.
The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we
started the freedom agenda in the Middle East. They were ...
QUESTION: What did Iraqi have to do with that?
BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?
QUESTION: The attacks upon the World Trade Center.
BUSH: Nothing. Except for it's part of -- and nobody's ever suggested
in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq
was a -- Iraq -- the lesson of September the 11th is: Take threats
before they fully materialize, Ken.
Nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were
ordered by Iraq. I have suggested, however, that resentment and the
lack of hope create the breeding grounds for terrorists who are
willing to use suiciders to kill, to achieve an objective. I have
made that case.
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-- Ed Leafe
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P.S. - 'Suiciders'?
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