Wait...There was no conclusive link between Osama and Hussein?
Well, that's what the report says. While not admitting any illegal action, the report says that they Pentagon may have manipulated the intelligence to show a link between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Senator Carl Levin, that kindly old Michigander who frequently pops up on Meet the Press glaring over the glasses that have slid uncomfortably down his nose calls this report "very damning." With the White House linking the two countless times, it's no wonder the American public went along with it. Finally, I can tell off all those people who were absolutely convinced that a religious fundamentalist and a secularist, albeit of Sunni upbringing and a semi-religious end, teamed up in some crazy Odd Couple sort of way. I guess we'll hear more about it later today. Until then...
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After reading this article, it angers me that the pentagon made up a connection between Al Queada and Iraq after 9/11 which was one of the arguments used start a war. I am just in upset that there was no conclusive link. Think of all the people that died and it was for nothing. This really makes me distrust the national government because I don't like to be lied to.
It should be noted that Bush did not outright say that his prewar intelligence was incorrect. He is reorganizing the relationships among the intelligence agencies to better reduce doubt as to the veracity of the information they share. An apparent “consensus” among the intelligence ignores some very real possibilities such as the extent to which al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks branch into various nations. It is better to cut off a tenuous terrorist relationship before it strengthens.
I can agree with the both of you, but we have to empathetic to the Bush administration. Given the enormous implications of the terrorist attacks on 9-11, no other terrorist attack has been that successful, in the terms of civilian causality. I am not rating the success of a terrorist attack based on how many innocents parish, i am merely stating some compassion has to be alloted to the Bush administration for taking immediate action, and for preventing future attacks. The immediate action Bush took might have not been the best, but where would we be had he not taken any action.
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