9/11 Commission's Report demolishes all Bush's claims
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Discourser ~ July 3
9/11 Commission's Report demolishes all Bush's claims.
The 9/11 Commission's debunking of a link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein puts the last nail
in the coffin of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq.
When Colin Powell made his now infamous presentation to the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003,
explaining why Hussein was a threat, he alleged such links.
He suggested that Hussein in some unspecified way colluded or strategized with al Qaeda.
Like his allegations to the Security Council about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,
Powell's allegation of an Iraqi/al Qaeda connection turned out to be fantasy.
The falsity of the weapons allegation became apparent after U.S. forces unsuccessfully scoured Iraq
after invading.
But the falsity of the allegation of an Iraq/al Qaeda link had not been demonstrated
until the 9/11 Commission hearings.
The administration relied heavily on reports of an April 2001 meeting in Prague between Iraqi officials
and 9/11 hijack-pilot Mohamad Atta.
The commission finds no evidence that such a meeting took place; it believes that Atta was in the
United States at the time.
The administration has revealed no other information to substantiate a Hussein-al Qaeda connection.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/9071145.htm?&1c
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