ABC News: Bushists Would Rather You Not Know About Pentagon Report Debunking Saddam-Qaeda Link

[BurtWorm]

This post is from Laura Rozen of War and Piece:

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007145.html

ABC's Jonathan Karl:

The Bush Administration apparently does not want a military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.

The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online.

Asked why the report would not be posted online and could not be emailed, the spokesman for Joint Forces Command said: "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail."

Another Pentagon official said initial press reports on the study made it "too politically sensitive." ...

Here's the report (pdf) some apparently don't want you to see.
Posted by Laura at March 12, 2008 02:06 PM

[ourbluenation]

1. Fuck em - DU'rs send it to everyone you know. n/t

[tekisui]

2. Par for the course.

The War Criminals are trying desperately to cover their tracks and their asses.

[Disturbed]

3. I bet Cheney will say that the report is wrong.

He knows better than anyone that al Q & Saddam were doing
business.

:sarcasm:

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The link to the PDF has already been scrubbed.

This thing is going down the memory hole fast!

[Vincardog]

5. Try again. I just loaded it to my documents

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Thank you.

And why the hell does a thread like this get only a half dozen posts?

[Quantess]

7. It would be nice to get an argumentative troll in this thread.

Or at least a devil's advocate to get a nice argument going. That always keeps a thread kicked.

[BurtWorm]

8. What would the devil advocate? He'd want the thread to disappear.

:evilgrin:

[Quantess]

11. Actually by Devil's Advocate, I meant the type who loves to argue.

You know, the person who can never agree 100%?

But, I can't see much to debate about in this article.

[BurtWorm]

12. Me know.

Me just make joke. ;)

I agree with you that there's not much to debate about with this story. It *is* true that the other side just wants the story to go away.

[Quantess]

14. The other side doesn't want to hear it, either. (eom)

[Peace Teacher]

9. Business as usual...

[HuffleClaw]

10. i'm surprised they simply didn't slap a 'national security' sticker on it and bury it

that seems to be their usual method of hiding unpleasant truths

[mamre11]

13. I sent it to all my righty friends

my husband and other conservative folks were shocked by the story and immediately tried to find some error in it- I am not surprised they would try to cover it up because it debunks the entire basis for staying in this war.

[Quantess]

15. But, the records state there IS a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

I beleive it because the Bush Administration says so, and they have been proven right almost every single time.