U.S. Senate Reports No Link Between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein

It looks like yet another one of the governments key arguments for the war in Iraq has fallen apart. For the last 4 years, leading up to the war in Iraq and the years afterward, the Republican administration has been repeating the same argument (which I knew was a load of bulls....) saying that Saddam Hussein was connected with Al Qaeda and supported the group prior to 9/11. The Bush administration even went as far as suggesting that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. The government made this suggestion so strongly that it resulted in the majority of Americans (up until last year or so) believing that Iraq attacked the U.S. on 9/11.

The 9/11 Commission first waved red flags about this issue back in 2003, saying that there was no evidence of such a link. Now the U.S. Senate (a Republican controlled U.S. Senate) has come out with their formal report covering this issue, and the discussion can now be laid to rest. The U.S. Senate, in a difinitive report, has shot down this argument.

This is also yet more evidence that shows that the White House was involved in a carefully crafted scheme to intentionally mislead the American people.

What will come of this major story? Probably nothing, because politicians rarely prosecute their colleagues and hold them accountable for their actions. However, it is important for the American people to know the truth.

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Senators report Saddam avoided helping Al-Qaida

TWO REPUBLICANS ENDORSE DEMOCRATS' DRAFT
By Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON - The Senate intelligence committee Friday said it had found no evidence that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al-Qaida or provided safe harbor to one of its most notorious operatives, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- conclusions contradicting claims by the Bush administration before it invaded Iraq.

In a long-awaited report, the committee determined that the former Iraqi dictator was wary of Al-Qaida, repeatedly rebuffed requests from its leader, Osama bin Laden, for assistance and sought to capture Zarqawi when the deadly terrorist turned up in Baghdad.

The findings are the latest in a series of high-profile studies to contradict some of the Bush administration's key arguments for invading Iraq, mainly that Saddam's government possessed stockpiles of banned weapons and had cultivated ties to terrorist networks. Presenting these since-discredited allegations as fact, President Bush and other high-ranking officials argued that Saddam's government posed an intolerable risk in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The 356-page report is certain to fuel election-season debate over the administration's foreign policy as Bush is seeking to shore up support for the war in Iraq through a series of speeches that cast the conflict as central to winning the larger war on terror.

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