Bush releases documents showing Saddam wasn't working with Al Qaeda

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Bush releases documents showing Saddam wasn't working with Al Qaeda
by John in DC - 3/16/2006 08:26:00 PM


The new documents, released today by the Bush administration, are maybe, but maybe not, real Iraqi government documents that we found in Iraq. The Bush administration can't vouch for the documents' authenticity or the accuracy of the translations from Arabic, but they're releasing them anyway in the hopes that - get this - right-wing blogs can help them prove their case that Osama had WMD and ties to Al Qaeda.

Yes, it's come to that. Bush is now relying on Michelle Malkin's keen intelligence skills to prove the case for war in Iraq.

Anyway, my favorite part of the document dump is the following "find" that shows the Iraqi government wasn't working with Al Qaeda at all - in fact, Iraqi intelligence was trying to get a handle on what, if any, Al Qaeda presence there might be in the country:

One synopsis described a series of Iraqi documents as "Iraqi intelligence correspondence concerning the presence of al Qaeda members in Iraq," adding there were exchanges between intelligence service members about a suspicion that was later confirmed of the presence of an al Qaeda group in the country.

Did you get that? The documents don't show Saddam working with Al Qaeda. On the contrary, they prove (if they're even real) that Saddam had no clue if Al Qaeda was even hiding inside Iraq at all, and he was trying to find out. Not at all unlike our own government trying to determine if there are likely Al Qaeda operatives inside the US at this very moment.

If that's the standard for convicting someone of working with Al Qaeda, simply determining that there may operatives hiding in the country, then George Bush is as guilty as Saddam Hussein, since Al Qaeda is hiding in the US, and how many, 65 or so, other countries as well? Should we invade western Europe too? What exactl does this document dump prove, other than extreme desperation by a dangerously incompetent president.

Hey, it worked! Bush released the documents and a blogger figured them out!

Thanks GWB.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/bush-releases-documents-showing-saddam.html
and more at:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002561.htm#More



and from Juan Cole


Saddam Was Trying to Capture Zarqawi

The Bush administration repeatedly made the presence in Iraq of Abu Musab Zarqawi a pretext for invading the country and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. They implied that he was a client of Saddam and that Saddam had arranged for hospital care for him.

Newly released documents from the captured Iraqi archives show that Saddam had put out an APB for Zarqawi and was trying to have him arrested as a danger to the Baath regime!


' However, one of the documents, a letter from an Iraqi intelligence official, dated August 17, 2002, asked agents in the country to be on the lookout for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and another unnamed man whose picture was attached. '

The September 29, 2002 Denver Post paraphrased Cheney, "He said the evidence presented against Iraq will be long and persuasive, including more details of a relationship between Hussein's forces and the al-Qaeda terrorist network."

http://www.juancole.com/2006/03/saddam-was-trying-to-capture-zarqawi.html

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1. Saddam releases documents showing U.S. worked with

him for years.

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2. Okay so let me get this straight... Bush is relying on RW bloggers to

either...

disprove what intelligence agencies, who have professionally trained and experienced operatives on the ground all over the world with the abilty to go directly to real life people and sources, came up with.
OR....
To come up with enough fake stuff put up as real through out the web which supposedly "proves" that what Bush wants (or needs) to be true must be true because "it's on the internet"?

The last makes the most sense when you think that one of BushCo's consistent beliefs and mems has been "why let the truth stand if it makes you look bad when BSpin and lying will make it go away."




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