humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 16, 7:25 pm, Potroast wrote:
> > You accepted "Potroast"'s false premise in  the first place,
>
> Speaking of accepting false premises (a repost).....
>
> You once said Bush never personally made a connection between 9/11 and
> Iraq right? (as if his
> own VP Cheney;s comments don't count).....
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html


Again, no connection was made by Bush between 9/11 and Husein's Iraq.
Statement (2) was for the purpose to fight al-Qaeda and ANY OTHER LIKE
organizations (whether or not they had any connection to 9/11) inside
Iraq or elsewhere.

>
> You also suggested their was a connection between Saddam and Al
> Qaeda...someone better inform the Pentagon then.
>
> "There's no link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda, this
> according to an exhaustive study by the Pentagon. More than 600,000
> Iraqi documents captured after the 2002 inva, 2003 invasion, were
> reviewed. The study is scheduled for release later this week."
>


Again, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq (though it was not so named until
2004), al-Zarqawi was in Iraq prior to the invasion.

Again, Bush never claimed there was an operational link beween OBL in
Afghanistan and Hussein, though there was some evidence to suggest the
possibility -- like al-Zarqawi in Iraq and Mohamed Atta in Prague
meeting with an Iraqi diplomat. The fact of the matter even OBL denied
responsiblity (until 2004) and there has not been an indictment
against him.