Bush: No Proof of Saddam Role in 9-11

"There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties," George W. Bush.

I say "put up or shut up".

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A recent poll indicated that nearly 70 percent of Americans believed the Iraqi leader probably was personally involved.
My my, I wonder where they all got that impression!

By the way, I think it's time to make a list of all the news outlets that are "liberal"

1)Yahoo News
2) AOL News

Another quote. Notice the tricky wordplay:

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[Bush went to war against Saddam was because he posed a threat in]"a region from which the 9-11 threat emerged." - Condoleeza Rice
Yeah. A shame he accidentally attacked Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia. A shame his administration tosses "proofs" however flimsy of Iraq's involvment but supresses 28 pages that clearly indict the Saudi's.

There used to be a thread at the old DC boards titled "Milking 9/11"....... [no no no]

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Cincinnati: Iraq Threat. Oct 7/02
Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there's a reason. We've experienced the horror of September the 11th. We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. Our enemies would be no less willing, in fact, they would be eager, to use biological or chemical, or a nuclear weapon.

The attacks of September the 11th showed our country that vast oceans no longer protect us from danger. Before that tragic date, we had only hints of al Qaeda's plans and designs. Today in Iraq, we see a threat whose outlines are far more clearly defined, and whose consequences could be far more deadly. Saddam Hussein's actions have put us on notice, and there is no refuge from our responsibilities.

State of the Union Address. Jan 28/03
Since September the 11th, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have worked more closely than ever to track and disrupt the terrorists.

Our war against terror is a contest of will in which perseverance is power. In the ruins of two towers, at the western wall of the Pentagon, on a field in Pennsylvania, this nation made a pledge, and we renew that pledge tonight: Whatever the duration of this struggle, and whatever the difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men -- free people will set the course of history.

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein.

Mission Accomplished. May 1/03
The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 -- and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men -- the shock troops of a hateful ideology -- gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11th would be the "beginning of the end of America." By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy this nation's resolve, and force our retreat from the world. They have failed. (Applause.)

In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th -- the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Back From Vacation. September 7/03
For a generation leading up to September the 11th, 2001, terrorists and their radical allies attacked innocent people in the Middle East and beyond, without facing a sustained and serious response.

Since America put out the fires of September the 11th, and mourned our dead, and went to war, history has taken a different turn. We have carried the fight to the enemy. We are rolling back the terrorist threat to civilization, not on the fringes of its influence, but at the heart of its power.

And for America, there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 -- to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength -- they are invited by the perception of weakness.

Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;

Now why do so many Amereicans beleive Sadaam had something to do with 9/11?

Bush may want to further distance himself from Cheney after this:

Oil services firm paid Cheney as VP