Faux News: Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection

I can point out several reasons why this theory is suspect, but hey, nobody listens anyway, so what's the point?

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"Islamic relations with Iraq"? With Saddam, who Bin Laden called "an apostate, an infidel and a traitor to Islam"?

Right.

But yes, I believe they visited Texas in early 2001.

re-writing history. I expect more "documents" to be dribbling out very soon suggesting a connection between Saddam and 9/11. Whatever.

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who actually piloted the planes on that day.

Ink still damp and names of participants don't fit time-frame they were in saddam's government...
Who wants to bet this is a Pentagon or White House Iraq Group attempt at a "niger document forgery"?

Every Day, another FOX PAUS from this ass. Par for the course.

Enquiring minds wanna know.

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invading Iraq. Grotesque. Even the base might question this....

The only "link" with Hussein is that one of his IIS agents made notations about "former Saddam regime officials" (probably disgruntled) meeting with a "prominent Taliban supporter." They certainly weren't part of "Hussein's inner circle" at the time.

Since the Taliban and Hussein had nothing but hatred for each other, this wouldn't be unusual. And "Islamic relations with Iraq" is probably an idiomatic Arabic way of saying "overthrow Hussein and install a theocratic Islamic government in Iraq."

Now, of course, we know that bush accomplished this for the Taliban.

The part that reveals this for neocon propaganda is the casual use of the phrase, "examined efforts by Saddam Hussein to build and hide weapons of mass destruction." There were no such efforts by the time we invaded, of course. But the phrase implies that there was simply because the neocon ISG was seeking to find them. (Remember how they said, "the fact we can't find any WMD is proof that he has them and is hiding them?")

The kicker is, "supervised a group of linguists to analyze, archive and exploit documents and materials of Saddam's regime." This story is one example of how they are "exploiting" (misrepresenting) them for bush's political benefit.

its relations with the Taliban. If relations with the Taliban were the basis for war, why didn't we invade Pakistan?

Isn't the criteria 'reputable'?

You can laugh, cry, or scream with rage...laughter gets their goats and is healthy for you.

I seem to recall docs being "found" in some hotel room shortly after the fall of Baghdad; those same docs were found to be false.

Bush is giving a speech daily; Bush and Cheney are telling the American people that Republicans will win despite the fact that the polls heavily favor democrats; Saddam--9/11 connection must be found so that the invasion was not illegal; Zarqawi--the creation of the Neo-cons--was killed and a new enemy (complete with framed photo) who has replaced him, will be killed as it gets closer to elections; the media is in full propoganda mode; Diebold has their backs.

The fix is in.

Three years after they start a PRE-EMPTIVE war on a nation and now they scrounge up excuse for an illegal invasion. DISGUSTING. I hope every GOP politician lives a long painful life.

...in full operation...

We're selling them fighter jets.

It's fox news - the deceive and the public believes

and of COURSE its FOX that takes that ball and runs with it, eagerly repeating every new tidbit of revisionist history that comes their way.