ace, even president Bush admits that there is no proof of this, from your IBD editorial's "data"....
Quote:
2002
October: Diplomat Laurence Foley murdered in Jordan, in an operation planned, directed and financed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, perhaps with the complicity of Saddam's government.
|
<h3>I've posted both of these, over and over....have they made no impact on you, ace?</h3>
Quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20060821.html
Press Conference by the President September 15, 2006
....Martha.
Q Mr. President, you have said throughout the war in Iraq and building up to the war in Iraq that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Zarqawi and al Qaeda. A Senate Intelligence Committee report a few weeks ago said there was no link, no relationship, and that the CIA knew this and issued a report last fall. And, yet, a month ago you were still saying there was a relationship. Why did you keep saying that? Why do you continue to say that? And do you still believe that?
THE PRESIDENT: The point I was making to Ken Herman's question was that Saddam Hussein was a state sponsor of terror, and that Mr. Zarqawi was in Iraq. He had been wounded in Afghanistan, had come to Iraq for treatment. He had ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen in Jordan. I never said there was an operational relationship. .....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060915-2.html
|
Quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060912-2.html
.....Q Well, one more, Tony, just one more. Do you believe -- does the President still believe that Saddam Hussein was connected to Zarqawi or al Qaeda before the invasion?
MR. SNOW: The President has never said that there was a direct, operational relationship between the two, and this is important. Zarqawi was in Iraq.
Q There was a link --
MR. SNOW: Well, and there was a relationship -- there was a relationship in this sense: Zarqawi was in Iraq; al Qaeda members were in Iraq; they were operating, and in some cases, operating freely from Iraq. Zarqawi, for instance, directed the assassination of an American diplomat in Amman, Jordan. But they did they have a corner office at the Mukhabarat? No. Were they getting a line item in Saddam's budget? No. There was no direct operational relationship, but there was a relationship. They were in the country, and I think you understand that the Iraqis knew they were there. That's the relationship.
Q Saddam Hussein knew they were there; that's it for the relationship?
MR. SNOW: That's pretty much it. ....
|
ace....why do you think it is that the president of Iran can announce, two weeks before his arrival, that he is coming to visit in Iraq, then, when he arrives, drive from the airport in an unarmored sedan, spend all of his visit with no US provided security, only make a brief daytime visit, inside the heavily fortified green zone.....while Cheney and McCain must slip into Iraq, unnannounced, travel on roads pre-swept for IED's with helicopter escorts along routes lined with US troops, venture only about a mile out of the green zone, and only for a brief period....it's all documented in news reporting from multiple sources in my earlier post on this thread....why the stark difference, ace, in the ease of the Iranian's visit, vs. the visits of Cheney and McCain?
Why the much friendlier reception by the Iraqi leaders to the Iranian....and is it significant that the leading political party in Iraq was founded in Iran? Does any of this contradict what IBD editorials have been telling you?