Important point to know reNewt's lie about Saddam/Al Qaeda on MTP today

Few people realize that Newt was ONE OF THE INFO GATHERERS who worked for two and a half years on the Hart Rudman Report on Global Terror that was handed to Bush on Jan 30, 2001. Clinton tapped him to work on the project 's team, a team that also included Paul Bremer.

Reporters need to ask WHY Newt didn't include any links between Saddam and Al Qaeda in that report he helped to write.

calling Saddam an apostate and a bad Arab among other things.

in 2003 on the infamous tape. However I remember reading back in the 1990's about this.
I have never really found much reportage on the internet, but I found this tidbit from a book review
in BusinessWeek. This in some ways proves Osama hated Saddam long before 1991.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_36/b3898050_mz005.htm

By the late 1980s, Randal writes: "Osama, not yet 30, had turned himself into something of a religious pop star in a land hungering for inspirational role models."

The Al-Saud were slow to figure out what a loose cannon Osama had become. He irritated them by meddling in the affairs of their southern neighbor, Yemen, and alarmed them by repeatedly warning about Saddam Hussein, whom he called an "apostate." When Saddam proved him right by invading Kuwait, Osama used family connections to win an audience with Defense Minister Prince Sultan and pleaded that he could defend the kingdom from Saddam with a crew of Afghan veterans. When the Al-Saud decided that the U.S. military was a better bet, the die was cast. "As it turned out, the Al-Saud never found an effective way of dealing with Osama," Randal writes. "Nor did anyone else."

but, the corporate media REFUSED to discuss it. You never heard the media refer to claims that countered the WH assertion - certainly not from any of the mainstream broadcasters who controlled the discussion.

You listen to him speak, and you come away thinking he invented everything from the hotdog bun to nuclear fision ...

Russert did his usual bushwack job, and did make a few statements about how the Rs have had TOTAL control the last four years, but of course he let the Saddam/Al Queda lie go, and it was nothing like him going after Pelosi like a whinning child last week ...

never existed to keep BushInc protected.

t know the retails but if what you say is true--then I can see why it was shelved.

Taliban and other terrorist factions - assuming they could BUY them off for access to oil fields and the miles of pipelines needed.