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Sauron · 07-21-2003, 10:59 AM

Yet another Bush lie shot down:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in560449.shtml

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Questions About Saddam's Threat

CBS/AP) U.S. intelligence believed that the risk that Saddam Hussein would link up with terrorists � a key rationale for the war � was greatest if the Iraqi president were under attack or desperate, a newspaper reports.

"Saddam, if sufficiently desperate, might decide that only an organization such as al Qaeda � already engaged in a life-or-death struggle against the United States, could perpetrate the type of terrorist attack that he would hope to conduct," concluded a National Intelligence Estimate in October.

The White House released portions of the NIE on Friday to counter charges that it had ignored warnings from intelligence agencies over the president's claim that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.

Iraq's alleged illegal arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and his supposed pursuit of nuclear arms, were the most prominent justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Baghdad's reputed ties to terrorism were another. Bush administration officials have said the war was aimed at eliminating the potential "nexus" of terror groups and terror weapons within Iraq.

But according to The Washington Post, the estimate predicted that a U.S. attack could itself trigger such an alliance.

The NIE indicated that Saddam would join with al Qaeda in an attack on the United States if it "would be his last chance to exact vengeance by taking a large number of victims with him" and only "if Baghdad feared an attack that threatened the survival of the regime were imminent or unavoidable."

Saddam "appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or [chemical or biological weapons] against the United States fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war," the estimate reads.

jman0904 · 07-21-2003, 12:05 PM

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Iraq War made terrorism more, not less, likely

My mom's friend (Ultra Lib), has this nice little saying she'll use whenever we utter something painfully obvious:

"No shit!"

Godless Dave · 07-21-2003, 03:20 PM

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Originally posted by Sauron
Yet another Bush lie shot down:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in560449.shtml

I believe this was also covered in Duh! magazine.

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