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| 2003/10/12-13 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:10599 Activity:nil |
10/11 Dick Cheney Was Right
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/238dkpee.asp
\_ I can smell the troll from here!
\_ doesn't fit your world view so it must be a troll. typical.
we know that when you've got nothing to say you always resort
to the thoughtless "it's a troll!" response. why bother even
posting anymore? we already know you've got no response and
nothing to add. RTFA and you'll see real facts. Hurts, huh? !op
\_ "We don't know," said Cheney today.
On March 16, just before the war started, Vice President Cheney
said, "We know that [Saddam Hussein] has a long-standing
relationship with various terrorist groups, including the Al
Qaeda organization."
To bad he didn't tell the truth back in March, eh?
\_ Did you read the article? It addresses your concern.
They were two different questions. The question in the
article was about Sept. 11. What was the question
for your quote. You're being intellectually dishonest.
\_ tjb? what are you doing here?!?
\_ standard motd leftist: if you can't
dispute the facts, insult the speaker
\_ Typical motd child: Doesn't know
jack doodly about the poster, so
he must be on the Other team
(since ALL politics can be
trivially divided into two teams).
\_ Good try. Take another shot?
\_ Do you even know who tjb
is?
\_ yup. and?
\_ You're way too serious
or take yourself way
too seriously.
Lighten up, chum.
\_ leftists like Bill O'Reilly?
\_ BO'R is an entertainer, not a
politcal figure.
\_ Standard motd rightist: post
uninteresting opinion peice
from right wing magazine, then
claim that it is indisputable
"facts," and get all huffy and
pious when people insult you.
\_ Better to post something than
just rant about the evil BushCo
conspiracy and blindly write
off the opposition without so
much as a link, good or bad.
I'm not the op but still no one
has disproved anything in that
URL at all. Just fired up the
old "its a troll!" gun and
ripped off a few shots into
the dark. |
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| weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/238dkpee.asp Respond to this article ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2003, "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert asked Vice President Dick Cheney whether Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11 attacks. Cheney's answer was characteristically straightforward: "We don't know." Despite the plain meaning of Cheney's words, critics charged that his response was deceptive, a subterfuge designed to trick dimwitted Americans into supporting a war built on deception. "By any reasonable standard, that's a lie," wrote columnist Josh Marshall, a frequent but usually thoughtful administration critic. "American intelligence and law enforcement have been investigating the Sept. The president himself said, "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 attacks." Maybe the president should have spoken of "proof" rather than "evidence." To the contrary, "We don't know" is entirely consistent with the president's assessment and is in reality the more accurate answer to questions about potential Iraqi involvement in September 11. In August 1999, Shakir, an Iraqi in his mid-30s, was offered a job as a "greeter" or "facilitator" at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A "facilitator" works for an airline and helps travelers, often dignitaries, with the paperwork required to enter the country. Shakir got the job not because of his vast experience facilitating. He got it because someone in the Iraqi embassy in Malaysia wanted him to have it. Although Shakir worked for Malaysian Airlines, the Iraqi embassy controlled his schedule--told him when to report to work, when to take a day off. On January 5, 2000, Shakir received an assignment from his embassy contact. He was to escort two recent arrivals through immigration at the airport. Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi--two of the chief September 11 hijackers--had come to Malaysia for an important al Qaeda meeting that would last four days. That gathering would become the focus of the extensive investigation into the planning of the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon nearly a year later. According to US intelligence reports, Shakir greeted these two future hijackers at the airport and walked them to a waiting car. But rather than see them off, he jumped in the car with al Midhar and al Hamzi and accompanied them to the Kuala Lumpur Hotel. Malaysian authorities had been tipped off about the al Qaeda summit before it happened and later provided American authorities with photographs and videotapes of the attendees. While US officials can place Shakir at the Kuala Lumpur Hotel with the hijackers, they cannot say for certain whether Shakir participated in the meeting. Also present that day, according to US intelligence reporting, were Ramzi bin al Shibh, the operational chief of the "Holy Tuesday" attacks, as 9/11 was known to the terrorists, and Tawfiz al Atash, a top-ranking bin Laden deputy, later identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole. |