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LiberalNation
04-06-2007, 03:03 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqqaeda;_ylt=Al9Nr_0WAuQfj2nNww9ITPoDW7oF

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.

A two-page resume of the report was published in February, but on Friday the Pentagon declassified the whole 120-page document.

According to the inspector general of the US Defense Department, information obtained after Saddam's fall confirmed the prewar position of the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon intelligence that the Iraqi government had had no substantial contacts with Al-Qaeda.

This position was shored up by interrogations of Saddam, the former Iraqi president and other top officials captured by the US-led coalition forces in Iraq, the report said.

It contradicts a strong argument for the invasion made by the administration of President George W. Bush that Baghdad had a working relationship with Al-Qaeda.

The network, based in Afghanisation and led by Osama bin Laden, was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in which almost 3,000 people were killed.

The report noted that the office of then-undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith, one of the foremost advocates for invading Iraq after the 2001 attacks, had ignored the CIA's position.

He characterized the supposed Al-Qaeda-Iraq relationship as "mature" and "symbiotic" in a September 2002 briefing to the chief of staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.

The Feith briefing alleged that the two cooperated in 10 areas, including training, financing and logistics.

But the new report says the US intelligence community had concluded at the time there were "no conclusive signs" of links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and that "direct cooperation ... has not been established" between the two.

Prior to the war there was little public dispute inside the United States over the Bush administration's assertions linking Iraq and bin Laden's group.

But since the invasion, a number of intelligence officials have alleged the White House and its backers ignored their intelligence and "cherry picked" information to support their arguments for a war.

In a radio interview Wednesday Cheney insisted on a prewar link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, saying the group was working in Iraq "before we even arrived on the scene."

"As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq," Cheney told conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

darin
04-06-2007, 03:07 PM
The US Case for war was NOT centered around a Saddam - Al Qaeda connection. Intelligence suggested a relationship, however the case for war was to Ensure Saddam had no WMDs, AND was not supporting terrorist groups - both of those objectives were achieved.

Yurt
04-06-2007, 05:21 PM
LN:

Will you now believe EVERY report that comes out?


yes or no

Roomy
04-06-2007, 05:29 PM
So what?

Psychoblues
04-06-2007, 10:43 PM
ALL of the reasons given, except regime change, for going to war in Iraq have now been completely disproven. Lies, lies and more lies. They even knowingly lied about, awarded medals and subsequently disgraced the good name of a proud soldier killed by "friendly fire". These warmongers have NO SHAME!!!!!!!!!

grunt
04-06-2007, 11:24 PM
You're such an idiot psychoblues.

The reasons for war in Iraq were legitimate. At least according to every credible intelligence agency in the world, almost every member of the U.S. Congress and also, the UN.

Saddam Hussein was thought to have WMD's in his possession. There is evidence, not conclusive, that he had them right up until a month or so before the launch of the war. Saddam allowed LIMITED (at best) weapons inspections during an 8yr span. And during a 4-5yr span allowed not ONE UN Inspector in his country. A few weeks before the start of the war, he once again tried to play his, "OK!! We will let the UN Inspectors back in" (After a 4-5yr absent mind you) And President Bush, the US Congress and the UN...said "Too late! You've played your last game and now you will suffer for it".

Now, during this 12-13yr span, Iraqi forces fired upon US and UK warplanes patrolling the no-fly zone nearly everyday. (That in it self was an act of war)Saddam murdered around 500,000 children (not including the adults he tortured and killed) because he stole their food and medicine in order to re-build his army and further his plan to try and obtain WMD ( that, BTW, is in the Dulfar (sp?) Report that you Libs love to talk about all the time)

Psychoblues
04-06-2007, 11:49 PM
Stop listening to FauxNews, listening to Rush Limpdick and reading rightwing rags, grunt.




You're such an idiot psychoblues.

The reasons for war in Iraq were legitimate. At least according to every credible intelligence agency in the world, almost every member of the U.S. Congress and also, the UN.

Saddam Hussein was thought to have WMD's in his possession. There is evidence, not conclusive, that he had them right up until a month or so before the launch of the war. Saddam allowed LIMITED (at best) weapons inspections during an 8yr span. And during a 4-5yr span allowed not ONE UN Inspector in his country. A few weeks before the start of the war, he once again tried to play his, "OK!! We will let the UN Inspectors back in" (After a 4-5yr absent mind you) And President Bush, the US Congress and the UN...said "Too late! You've played your last game and now you will suffer for it".

Now, during this 12-13yr span, Iraqi forces fired upon US and UK warplanes patrolling the no-fly zone nearly everyday. (That in it self was an act of war)Saddam murdered around 500,000 children (not including the adults he tortured and killed) because he stole their food and medicine in order to re-build his army and further his plan to try and obtain WMD ( that, BTW, is in the Dulfar (sp?) Report that you Libs love to talk about all the time)

You will then realize that all you have written here and obvioulsy believe is political banter and otherwise horseshit.

Gaffer
04-07-2007, 01:11 AM
Stop listening to FauxNews, listening to Rush Limpdick and reading rightwing rags, grunt.





You will then realize that all you have written here and obvioulsy believe is political banter and otherwise horseshit.

The only one spouting political banter and horseshit is you syco. Try reading legitimate news sources for a change.

Psychoblues
04-07-2007, 02:41 AM
Obviously you don't read well, giffer. And you have a lessor sense of reality.



The only one spouting political banter and horseshit is you syco. Try reading legitimate news sources for a change.

I warned you about that. But, carry on. You might be entertaining to someone.

grunt
04-07-2007, 05:01 PM
Stop listening to FauxNews, listening to Rush Limpdick and reading rightwing rags, grunt.





You will then realize that all you have written here and obvioulsy believe is political banter and otherwise horseshit.

I have never once, in my entire life, listened to Rush or watched FOX news. I don't get my news from the TV. So, instead of sitting there with your thumb up your butt, why not try to discredit what I wrote?

Oh, wait...you won't be able to do that without citing some crazy left-wing, anti-Bush website. You're a tool and a moron. You're a waste of fucking skin. :fu:

manu1959
04-07-2007, 06:12 PM
ALL of the reasons given, except regime change, for going to war in Iraq have now been completely disproven. Lies, lies and more lies. They even knowingly lied about, awarded medals and subsequently disgraced the good name of a proud soldier killed by "friendly fire". These warmongers have NO SHAME!!!!!!!!!


so the pentagone is now a reliable source?....