Well, well. The New York Times reports on contacts between Al Qaeda and Saddam in the 90s to work on joint anti-Saudi efforts. Of course, the Times seeks to downplay this and then is back to pretending that the administration argued that Saddam helped out on 9/11.
Last week, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks addressed the known contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda, which have been cited by the White House as evidence of a close relationship between the two.
They still can't get their story straight. The administration specifically stated that there was no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Admittedly, they didn't shout it from the rooftops and hang neon signs in Times Square as Chris Matthews would have liked them to have done. But they were clear that they were talking about contacts not joint planning for 9/11. And in the environment after 9/11, would you have wanted to take the chance that two groups who were willing to work together against Saudi Arabia might not want to do the same about a common foe that they had both fought or were fighting a war against, namely us? I sure wouldn't want a president who took that chance. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:02 AM
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Well, well. The New York Times reports on contacts between Al Qaeda and Saddam in the 90s to work on joint anti-Saudi efforts. Of course, the Times seeks to downplay this and then is back to pretending that the administration argued that Saddam helped out on 9/11.
Last week, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks addressed the known contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda, which have been cited by the White House as evidence of a close relationship between the two.
They still can't get their story straight. The administration specifically stated that there was no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Admittedly, they didn't shout it from the rooftops and hang neon signs in Times Square as Chris Matthews would have liked them to have done. But they were clear that they were talking about contacts not joint planning for 9/11. And in the environment after 9/11, would you have wanted to take the chance that two groups who were willing to work together against Saudi Arabia might not want to do the same about a common foe that they had both fought or were fighting a war against, namely us? I sure wouldn't want a president who took that chance. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:02 AM
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