by
Jon Gold
March/19/2009
from 911Blogger Website
Fact #12
from
The Facts Speak For Themselves
In the days and months following the attacks, several people within the
administration and elsewhere tried to tie Iraq to 9/11.
General Wesley Clark
said,
"there were many people, inside and outside the government, who
tried to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11."
According to George Tenet,
shortly after 9/11, Richard Perle
said,
"Iraq has to pay a price for what happened
yesterday, they bear responsibility."
Former CIA Director James Woolsey
said,
"[I]ntelligence and law enforcement
officials investigating the case would do well to at least consider
another possibility: that the attacks-whether perpetrated by bin Laden
and his associates or by others-were sponsored, supported, and perhaps
even ordered by Saddam Hussein," he writes.
"As yet, there is no
evidence of explicit state sponsorship of the September 11 attacks. But
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Dick Cheney
claimed the
bogus Atta-Iraqi spy meeting had been,
"pretty well confirmed, that he did go to
Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence
service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack."
Since that time, they have done so
again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and again,
and even
Hillary did it.
9/11 Truth - Why Are We In Iraq?
"We went to war BECAUSE WE WERE ATTACKED,
and we are at war today because there are still people out there who
want to harm our country and hurt our citizens."
-
George W. Bush
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice Tell The Truth About Iraq
by
phantomdj
June 15, 2006
from
YouTube Website
.
Rice...
‘No One Was Arguing
That Saddam Hussein Somehow Had
Something To Do With 9/11′
by Satyam Khanna
March 19, 2009
from
ThinkProgress Website
On PBS’s Charlie Rose yesterday — six
years after the eve of the Iraq invasion — former secretary of state
Condoleezza Rice discussed the decision to invade Iraq.
Rice said she has had no “second thoughts” about
striking the country, and when pressed by Rose on whether Saddam Hussein had
connections to 9/11, Rice blankly said that “no one” believed in such a
link:
ROSE: But you didn’t believe it had anything
to do with 9/11.
RICE: No. No one was arguing that Saddam Hussein somehow had something
to do with 9/11.
ROSE: No one.
RICE: I was certainly not. The President was certainly not… That’s
right. We were not arguing that.
Rose also tried to press Rice on whether Cheney
pushed the link, but she didn’t answer. Watch above video...
Of course,
there was no link between Saddam
and 9/11. But these supposed ties
formed the basis of the
administration’s causus belli.
A
letter from the White House to the House
Speaker on March 18, 2003, read:
“(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution
and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and
other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against
international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including
those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized,
committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September
11, 2001.”
In his book, Bush At War, Bob
Woodward noted that Bush said after 9/11,
“I believe Iraq was involved, but I’m
not going to strike them now.”
Bush Gang Swore Saddam Was Behind 9/11 In Lawsuit
Rice was no exception either.
On Sept. 15, 2002,
she said that Saddam had,
“links to terrorism [that] would include
al-Qaeda.”
As late as September 2006, she remarked,
“there were ties going on between Al
Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime going back for a decade.”
Rice - ‘There Were Ties Going On Between Al Qaeda
And Saddam Hussein’
Cheney still believes there was a
link between Iraq and al Qaeda.
In recent weeks, former Bush administration officials have continued to
push the link. Bush maintains that
he was right to make a false link
between Iraq and 9/11.
Former press secretary Ari Fleischer
said last week,
“But after September 11th, having been
being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might
not strike again?”
Fleischer Defends Iraq Invasion: After 9/11, ‘How
Could We Take A Chance’ That Saddam Might ‘Strike Again’?
More videos - Decide for yourself:
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