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"GW *AWOL* Chimpzilla" |
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05 Oct 2004 01:10:52 PM |
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Rummy FLIP-FLOPS His MIXED MESSAGE About Iraq |
by Matthew Clark | csmonitor.com
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was forced to go into damage control
mode Monday hours after a statement he made began to spread through the media.
Mr. Rumsfeld "attempted to distance himself from his earlier comments that there
were no links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda," reports The Guardian:
In a statement issued several hours after he had told the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York that "to my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard
evidence that links the two", [Rumsfeld] claimed he had been "misunderstood".
In the statement posted on the Department of Defense website, Rumsfeld said: "I
have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between Al Qaeda
and Iraq. This assessment was based upon points provided to me by then CIA
Director George Tenet to describe the CIA's understanding of the Al Qaeda-Iraq
relationship."
However, a new CIA assessment saying there's no conclusive evidence that
Hussein's regime harbored Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
"undercuts the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to Al
Qaeda," reports Knight-Ridder:
While intelligence officials cautioned that information about Zarqawi remains
incomplete, Bush, Cheney and other top officials have publicly made Zarqawi the
linchpin of their contention that Saddam's Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda. ...
Since the Sept. 11 commission's judgment in June, Bush and Cheney have
repeatedly said that Zarqawi was an associate of bin Laden and received safe
haven from Saddam. But [Rumsfeld] backed away Monday from such claims,
apparently as a result of the new CIA assessment.
In the same meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations Monday, Rumsfeld also
said there were no WMD in Iraq. "It turns out that we have not found weapons of
mass destruction," Rumsfeld said Monday in the speech to the foreign affairs
group. "Why the intelligence proved wrong I'm not in a position to say, but the
world is a lot better off with Saddam Hussein in jail."
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1005/dailyUpdate.html?s=ent
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| User: "Gary" |
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| Title: Re: Rummy FLIP-FLOPS His MIXED MESSAGE About Iraq |
05 Oct 2004 07:06:01 PM |
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I guess some of the pics I've seen of Hussein he was wearing a tie but
never Bin Laden, I just don't see how they could have shared ties.
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