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[Incognito]

scott mcclellan on rumsfield's recent admission of no ties between iraq/al qaida,

McClellan ticked off a litany of what he said were links between Iraq and al-Qaida. Both were "sworn enemies of the free world, including the United States"; both "celebrated the Sept. 11 attacks on America," he said.

"There are clearly ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida," McClellan said. "There (were) clearly some disturbing similarities that existed as well."

:lol

 

[Incognito]

let me guess... disturbing similarities = muslims?

 

[Drinky Crow]

LIBERALS OWNED!

SCOTT MCCLELLAN AM GROWNDED IN THE LOGIC

 

[Willco]

I KNOW I POSTED IT EARLIER

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

:lol

 

[Drinky Crow]

Willco: it's your own damn fault for not sending it to CBS first.

 

[bishoptl]

haha :lol

Hey, what's with the freakin' Redskins avatars everywhere? Stop it!

 

[Fragamemnon]

Ol' Scotty is even funnier to watch than his predecessor, Chemical Ari.

Funny notepad pic too.

 

[explodet]

Saddam posts on GAF?

 

[Doth Togo]

The Redskins suck. Any billion dollar team that can't product better than a 1-3 is pathetic.

Joe Gibbs needs to stick with his NASCAR.

 

[Incognito]

now you went and pissed me off, doth togo.

 

[Willco]

The Redskins suck. Any billion dollar team that can't product better than a 1-3 is pathetic.

Joe Gibbs needs to stick with his NASCAR.

HEY I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH MY BUDDY GEORGE W. AND HE SAYS DARTH TOGO HAS NOW BEEN INCORPORATED IN THE WAR ON TERROR. TELL ME HOW GUANTANAMO BAY IS.

 

[Ripclawe]

scott mcclellan on rumsfield's recent admission of no ties between iraq/al qaida,

Rumsfield said this when?

 

[videogamer]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.

"I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between al Qaeda and Iraq," Rumsfeld said in a Web site statement issued following remarks he made to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Monday.

"Today at the Council, I even noted that 'when I'm in Washington, I pull out a piece of paper and say "I don't know, because I'm not in that business, but I'll tell you what the CIA thinks" and I read it'."

snip

Rumsfeld, during a question-and-answer session before the Council on Foreign Relations, had been asked to explain the connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network -- one of the U.S. arguments for launching a war on Iraq.

He replied: "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."



whatever that means

 

[Ripclawe]

Its because they took one sentence out of context

The transcript is right here

http://www.cfr.org/pub7424/louis_v_...global_war_on_terror_with_donald_rumsfeld.php

QUESTIONER: My name is Glenn Hutchins. Mr. Secretary, what exactly was the connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda?

RUMSFELD: I tell you, I'm not going to answer the question. I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over the period of a year in the most amazing way. Second, there are differences in the intelligence community as to what the relationship was. To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two. There are--I just read an intelligence report recently about one person who's connected to al Qaeda, who was in and out of Iraq, and there's the most tortured description of why he might have had a relationship, and why he might not have had a relationship. There are reports about people in Saddam Hussein's intelligence service meeting in one country or another with al Qaeda people from one person to another, which may have been indicative of something, or may not have been. It may have been something that was not representative of a hard linkage.

What we do know is that Saddam Hussein was on the terrorist list. We do know they were giving $25,000 to suicide bombers. So, this is not the Little Sisters of the Poor. [Laughter.] But, what I would--to answer it, when I'm in Washington, I pull out a piece of paper and say, I don't know, because I'm not in that business, but I'll tell you what the CIA thinks, and I read it--the public version of it. If you want a--not terribly current now, but [former Director of Central Intelligence] George Tenet did testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a version of it was unclassified--declassified--later which you can get and read if you want to see the answer that he gave.

But it is--it is--the relationships between these folks are complicated. They evolve and change over time. In many cases, these different networks have common funders. In many cases, they cooperate not in a chain of command, but in a loose affiliation--a franchising arrangement almost, where they go do different things and cooperate, but they're not, in the case of al Qaeda, most--my impression is, most of the senior people have actually sworn an oath to Osama bin Laden, and even, to my knowledge, even as of this late date, I don't believe [Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi, the principal leader of the network in Iraq, has sworn an oath, even though what they're doing--I mean, they're just two peas in a pod in terms of what they're doing.

So, it is too complicated for me to try to pretend I'm the expert analyst on the subject, and for that I apologize.

 

[Incognito]

uhhhh, ripclawe, how the fuck is this

To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.

taken out of ANY context?

 

[Ripclawe]

uhhhh, ripclawe, how the fuck is this



taken out of ANY context?

I'm glad you asked

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2004/n10052004_2004100504.html

 

[AssMan]

Al Qaeda linked to Iraq? What's next? A hanheld game featuring a wide variety of different anime characters?

 

[MetatronM]

I'm glad you asked

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2004/n10052004_2004100504.html

That's not taken out of context. That's the exact same context you posted in the transcript. They didn't quote the whole thing directly, but all the same information is there and mostly in the same order to boot. It's not the exact quote, but the context is there completely.

To be honest, I don't even know what point you're trying to make by posting that article.

 

[DarienA]

To be honest, I don't even know what point you're trying to make by posting that article.

Neither does he.

 

[Shinobi]

I KNOW I POSTED IT EARLIER

:lol