Don't Know Much About (Recent) History
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Al Qaeda | History | Iraq | The 9/11 Commission — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
In what is a full-time effort on a number of fronts, Patterico corrects the L.A. Times on what precisely it is that the Bush Administration has said concerning a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.
You know, this entire controversy would come to a dead-bang halt if people just came to grips with the fact that the 9/11 Commission confirmed the existence of a "collaborative relationship" between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda. That doesn't mean that Saddam was behind the 9/11 attacks. But what the 9/11 Commission said should not be so casually dismissed either.
But of course, we don't live in a perfect world. And thus, some basic, commonsense guidelines get tossed to the side. Leading the charge, unfortunately, are outlets like the L.A. Times, which owe their readership better and which never seem to want to deliver.
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and omitted the Lee Hamilton quote. Just one example, not nice.
Apart from 9/11 though Salman Park was not used to teach aspiring islamists in the use of herbal medicine and Saddam did not pay money to Palestinian families for dental care.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
or whatever font color one wants to use. Bush & the Bush administration never said that Saddam was involved in the 9-11 attacks, & in the run-up to the Iraq war they took great pains to say they knew of no involvement. The liberation of Iraq was done to prevent future terror attacks, to keep Iraq from aiding the islamist jihadis or being taken over by them. Well done Pejman & Patterico!
FROM PAGE 66 OF THE 9-11 REPORT:
"According to the reporting, Iraqi officials offered Bin Ladin a safe haven in Iraq. Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative. The reports describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides' hatred of the United States. But to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States.76"