Iran connection?
Please tell me the war on Iraq wasn't caused by a typo. Kidding. Here's the story at the NYTimes (if you haven't already, you might need to register to read it, but it's free to do so).
From the article, Bush says: "I have long expressed my concerns about Iran. After all, it's a totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to, you know, exercise their rights as human beings." He said that "this has been an issue that I have been concerned about ever since I've been the president."
Of couse, this concern about a "totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to, you know, exercise their rights as human beings" doesn't apply to Saudia Arabia. Remember - most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi - not Iraqi.
If find it difficult, very difficult, to believe that this 9/11 Commission discovered stuff that was unknown to the Administration. That is, of course, unless the Bush admin. didn't WANT to know about it.
Personally, I think the link is tenuous at best. The hijackers might have gone though Iran, but they also went through Boston, Phoenix and Florida.
Four months from now, when we are "preempting" Iran, remember that this article says: "Mr. Bush noted in a brief Oval Office meeting with reporters that the Central Intelligence Agency had found "no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of Sept.11," (side bar -- "MR" Bush? Oh my. Didn't he give some reporter shit about being called "MR" Bush? I seem to recall he did....)
"The evidence about an Iran-Qaeda tie contrasts sharply with what the Sept. 11 commission staff has concluded is a dearth of intelligence showing a working relationship between Iraq and the terror network, a judgment that has alarmed the White House since it appears to undermine a central justification of last year's invasion of Iraq."
Acting Director of the CIA, John E. McLaughlin, said of the report: "We have no evidence that there is some sort of official sanction by the government of Iran for this activity," he said. "We have no evidence that there is some sort of official connection between Iran and 9/11."
I really don't think this will deter the Bush Administration if they fall in the poll numbers in the next couple of months.
From the article, Bush says: "I have long expressed my concerns about Iran. After all, it's a totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to, you know, exercise their rights as human beings." He said that "this has been an issue that I have been concerned about ever since I've been the president."
Of couse, this concern about a "totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to, you know, exercise their rights as human beings" doesn't apply to Saudia Arabia. Remember - most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi - not Iraqi.
If find it difficult, very difficult, to believe that this 9/11 Commission discovered stuff that was unknown to the Administration. That is, of course, unless the Bush admin. didn't WANT to know about it.
Personally, I think the link is tenuous at best. The hijackers might have gone though Iran, but they also went through Boston, Phoenix and Florida.
Four months from now, when we are "preempting" Iran, remember that this article says: "Mr. Bush noted in a brief Oval Office meeting with reporters that the Central Intelligence Agency had found "no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of Sept.11," (side bar -- "MR" Bush? Oh my. Didn't he give some reporter shit about being called "MR" Bush? I seem to recall he did....)
"The evidence about an Iran-Qaeda tie contrasts sharply with what the Sept. 11 commission staff has concluded is a dearth of intelligence showing a working relationship between Iraq and the terror network, a judgment that has alarmed the White House since it appears to undermine a central justification of last year's invasion of Iraq."
Acting Director of the CIA, John E. McLaughlin, said of the report: "We have no evidence that there is some sort of official sanction by the government of Iran for this activity," he said. "We have no evidence that there is some sort of official connection between Iran and 9/11."
I really don't think this will deter the Bush Administration if they fall in the poll numbers in the next couple of months.
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