From the department of NO FUCKING SHIT: "Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida."

[Bicoastal]

Yes, this is a recent article--just saw it on Yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080310/wl_mcclatchy/2875005

WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East , U.S. officials told McClatchy . However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.

The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report."

And so on....

Thanks for wasting more of the Taxpayer's money on your "exaustive review," Pentagon! Anyone here could have told you this for nothing!

[wildbilln864]

1. and no links between...

UBL and 911. Go figure. :shrug:

[Cha]

2. And Obama is prescient or just did his homework..

<snip>

"What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income - to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush?"

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http://www.barackobama.com/2002/10/02/remarks_of_illinois_state_sen.php

[moondust]

5. Both.

Hard work, comprehensive understanding of the situation, intuitive vision. I'm not convinced there are many people who could put together something this accurate even today with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

[Cha]

9. And this was the consenus on

DU at the time so I feel like he spoke for a lot of us but I sure didn't read his speech then..only this year.

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Fuck impeachment, arrest this war criminal... NOW!

Pull our troops from Iraq, make this piece of shit apologize to the whole country of Iraq AND America.. then hang the bastard..

Kicked & recommended.... :kick:

[aquart]

4. I'm shocked. Shocked.

However, people heard it on TV, so it remains true.

[flyinzamboni]

6. Love the department!

There is a lot more work for this department to do over this next few months! And If they could have been more operational over the last few years, perhaps they could have produced little tiny books for Bushco with pictures to explain stuff to "the Decider" in terms he could understand.

I think its great that they did an exhaustive review - I just want all of the results publicized! widely widely publicized! as much as Spitzer is getting publicized if not more!

[DesertRat]

7. K&R

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. 5 horrible fucking years late, aintcha's?

The whole world knew about this damnit, which means you knew too.

My piddly ass knew. You HAD TO KNOW. Saint Swithens on a pogo stick in a red scarf, you HAD TO KNOW.

Must. Not. Throw. Keyboard.

:grr: :mad: :grr: :cry: