Old News: Pentagon Says "No Al Qaida-Saddam Link"

[Doug]

DOUG
Incredibly, some hardline Republicans still think Saddam Hussein had WMD's and that he was helping Al Qaida.

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WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.

The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report.

See here.

[Tony]

Doug wrote:

Incredibly, some hardline Republicans still think Saddam Hussein had WMD's and that he was helping Al Qaida.

What is even more incredible Doug, and I'll send the poll when I find it in my files, is that MORE Americans believed there was a link between Saddam and 9-11 and Iraqi WMD's last year than they did two years prior. That's what the poll data I saw showed. How's that for just kicking the hell out of any hope whatsoever? The more a lie is repeated......

Somtimes it just feels hopeless I tells ya.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Unless/until we break up the media monopoly - or by some miricle the media owners decide they want out of Iraq (and since half of them are also MIC...) - ignorance will prevail. And yes, that kind of makes it hopeless.