Gee that's strange, coz the following was all public knowledge BEFORE bush's illegal invasion & occupation of a sovereign nation that had done nothing whatsoever to anyone;"Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."-President GHW Bush, 1998;
http://www.rense.com/general43/quote.htm Brent Scowcroft, one of the Republican Party’s most respected foreign policy advisors;"Don't Attack Saddam. It would undermine our antiterror efforts. There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133CIA to Bush: 'No clear Evidence of WMD'http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/120103A.shtml Why the CIA thinks Bush is wrong The president says the US has to act now against Iraq. The trouble is, his own security services don't agree.
http://www.sundayherald.com/28384 CIA in blow to Bush attack planshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,808970,00.htmlWhite House 'exaggerating Iraqi threat'
Bush's televised address attacked by US intelligencehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,807286,00.html"Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
-James Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html"We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started." -Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Head of Central Command for U.S.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni "A billion bitter enemies will rise out of this war." - Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003, Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends…. I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defense and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster.
The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaeda. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."
-Gen. William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml "The idea that this is going to go the way these guys planned is ludicrous. There are no good options."-General Joseph Hoare, the former marine commandant and head of US Central Command
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."-Rumsfeld, Monday, October 4, 2004
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,10975887-1702,00.htmlBBC NEWS | Americas | Bush rejects Saddam 9/11 linkUS President George Bush has said there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks.
"We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11 September attacks," Mr Bush told reporters as he met members of Congress on energy legislation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3118262.stmSky News (London): "One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?"
Bush: "I can't make that claim.'http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030131-23.htmlSept 17, 2003- Bush: No evidence Saddam Hussein involved in Nine-Eleven attackshttp://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1447698 Sept 16, 2003- Rice: U.S. Never Said Saddam Was Behind 9/11http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/983821/posts Sept 16, 2003- Rumsfeld sees no link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-16-rumsfeld-iraq-911_x.htmAug 6, 2003- Wolfowitz: Iraq Was Not Involved In 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, No Ties To Al-Qaedahttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4372.htmUN Panel Reports No al-Qaida-Iraq Ties http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/6176302.htmLeaked Report Rejects Link Claimshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727471.stmNewly Declassified Intelligence Documents on Iraq-al Qaeda Relationship Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today released documents recently declassified at his request that illustrate that some claims of a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda made by top administration officials in support of the Iraq war were contrary to what U.S. intelligence officials believed to be true.
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=236440Sources: U.S. distorted Saddam-al Qaeda link - Senior U.S. officials now say there never was any evidence that Saddam's secular police state and Osama bin Laden's Islamic terrorism network were in league.https://registration.dfw.com/reg/login.do?url=http://www.dfw.com%2Fmld%2Fdfw%2Fnews%2F8094015.htmSpanish intelligence service says no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda: report Spain's counter-espionage service believes there is no link between toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the extremist Al Qaeda network, national media has reported. - The head of the National Intelligence Centre, Jorge Dezcaller, added that Al Qaeda had even accused Saddam of not respecting the principles of Islam,
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/09/06/ The Next Debate: Al Qaeda Linkhttp://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60616FE3A580C738EDDAE0894DB404482Allies Find No Links Between Iraq, Al Qaeda"What I'm asked is if I've seen any evidence of that. (Iraq links to al Qaeda) And the answer is: I haven't.” -British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who supports U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-noqaeda4nov04,0,4538810.storyBritish Intelligence agencies, MI6 and MI5A dossier prepared by the two agencies “showed no discernible links between Iraq and al-Qaida,”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=375403Richard Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who lead an internal review of the CIA's prewar intelligence;“the CIA has not found any proof of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime.”
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=800The White House’s own publication, A Decade of Defiance and Deception, makes no mention of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda.http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect5.htmlThe 2002 congressional joint intelligence committee’s report on the Sept. 11 attacks revealed that the Bush administration had no evidence to support its claim that Saddam’s government was supporting al-Qaeda.http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030723-064812-9491r No proof links Iraq, al-Qaida, Colin Powell sayshttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3909150 According to a "top secret British document", quoted by the BBC "there is nothing but enmity between Iraq and Al Qaeda." The BBC said the leak came from intelligence officials upset that their work was being used to justify war." (quoted in Daily News, New York, 6 February 2003).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303D.html Iraq-al Qaeda links weak, say former Bush officials Three former Bush administration officials who worked on intelligence and national security issues have told National Journal that the prewar evidence tying al Qaeda to Iraq was tenuous, exaggerated, and often at odds with the conclusions of key intelligence agencies.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0803/080803nj2.htm Split at C.I.A. and F.B.I. On Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda "…analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said."
and…
"At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden|s network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D1EF83E5C0C718CDDAB0894DB404482This is consistent with what they were saying back in October 2002.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A14056-2002Oct24"There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever." -Richard Clarke, former terrorism chief under bush.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml Iraq-al Qaeda ties have not been foundBush administration hyped sketchy and false evidence to push for war
The Bush administration’s claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda — one of the administration’s central arguments for a pre-emptive war — appears to have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration’s claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
Nearly a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq, no evidence has turned up to verify allegations of Saddam’s links with al Qaeda, and several key parts of the administration’s case have either proved false or seem increasingly doubtful.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/2004/03/04/news/nation/8101079.htmIraq and al Qaeda: What Evidence?http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=23816bush's own hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. David Kay;David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all."
He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link, as being "evidence free."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/06/16/bush_backs_cheney_on_assertion_linking_hussein_al_qaeda/Israeli intelligence (the Moussad)“According to Israeli intelligence, Palestinians are still not connected to the global terror network, and neither is Iraq.”
http://www.haaretz.com /
bush's second and final hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. Charles Dueffler;Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq, no capability since 1991, no evidence of ties to al Qaeda, no serious threat;
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/06/1096949583023.html?from=storylhs http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/OFFICIAL VERDICT: WHITE HOUSE MISLED WORLD OVER SADDAM-AL QAEDA TIES (no, actually, only AMERICANS were ever dumb enough to think Iraq did 911)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0617-03.htm No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commissionhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/06/cheney.911 "CIA Review Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists"http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1005-01.htm
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