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7/9 Senate Report Sees No Formal Iraq-Qaeda Ties.
http://csua.org/u/84t (Yahoo! News)
\_ How is it possible to have a formal tie to an organization such
as Al Qaeda that has no official structure?
\_ "there is no evidence" == "We just don't know! There isn't
anything confirming it, or anything to knock it down." -Dick Cheney
\_ So, I am curious, does this kind of reasoning convince anyone?
\_ Democrat _____ evil, Republican _____ good.
\_ "There is a relationship" -Dubya
"There were definitely links" -Dick
"no established formal relationship" -Senate report
\_ Before Cheney claimed the link was neither proven nor disproven
he claimed it had "pretty much been confirmed". When confronted
about the contradiction he lied. The lie occurred during
a CNBC interview, I believe.
\_ the problem is, there have been Iraq-Qaeda links; those *are*
pretty much confirmed
\_ Does anybody like Cheney? Would you Bush lovers be happy with
President Cheney?
\_ it doesn't matter what they say now. if cheney becomes
president, their republican media spinmasters will declare
him to be a Great Leader, and they will obey.
\_ Cheney rocks. I'd vote for any ticket with Cheney on it.
I might even consider something as sickening as a Kerry/
Cheney ticket if Kerry had cancer or something.
\_ No, all they have to say is, "Do you trust Cheney or
Kerry? Who do you trust to ensure the U.S. doesn't get
all blowed up?"
\_ So what? Security isn't important?
\_ I have met both Cheney and Kerry (and Gore). I am
not sure I trust any of them, but in general they
get too much and too little credit at the same
time.
\_ FWIW, One of my few republican friends is voting for Bush bc
of Cheney.
\_ If you were nicer, you'd have more friends. We're
everywhere, we just don't tell you because you're all
such bastards about it. |
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| csua.org/u/84t -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040709/pl_nm/iraq_intelligence_qaeda_dc web sites) and al Qaeda in the 1990s never led to a formal relationship and there is no evidence Iraq helped conduct an al Qaeda attack, a report by a bipartisan Senate committee said on Friday. No such weapons have been found, and the Senate panel said most of the US intelligence community's judgments about Iraqi WMD were overstated or unsupported by underlying intelligence. web sites) reasonably assessed that there were likely several instances of contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda throughout the 1990s, but that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship," the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said. "The Central Intelligence Agency's assessment that to date there was no evidence proving Iraqi complicity or assistance in an al Qaeda attack was reasonable and objective. No additional information has emerged to suggest otherwise," said the committee's "Report on the US Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq." The commission issued a terse statement on Tuesday saying the vice president had no more information than commission investigators. The commission's chairmen flatly rejected her interpretation. The Senate report, which focused primarily on the intelligence community's reporting on suspected Iraqi WMD, said Saddam might have used al Qaeda to conduct attacks in the event of war if he were sufficiently desperate. But it said, "No information has emerged thus far to suggest that Saddam did try to employ al Qaeda in conducting terrorist attacks." Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. |