He not only misled Congress, the U.N., and the American people, he also misled the new Iraqi Prime Minister! Of course, that guy is probably a puppet anyway, so of course he’s spouting the Bush Line:

Brokaw: Prime minister, I’m surprised that you would make the connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq. The 9/11 commission in America says there is no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and those terrorists of al-Qaida.

Allawi: No. I believe very strongly that Saddam had relations with al-Qaida. And these relations started in Sudan. We know Saddam had relationships with a lot of terrorists and international terrorism. Now, whether he is directly connected to the September — atrocities or not, I can’t — vouch for this. But definitely I know he has connections with extremism and terrorists.

Which is what I said earlier: Saddam connected with 9/11? Probably not. Saddam connected with Al Qaida? Possibly. Saddam connected with terrorists? NO QUESTION.

And by that, I mean there’s no point debating it, so I’ve disabled comments.

Posted in uncategorized on June 30th, 2004 by Thibodeaux | RSS 2.0 |