WASHINGTON – There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report issued Friday on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.
Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.
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It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.
The 400-page report comes at a time when Bush is emphasizing the need to prevail in Iraq to win the war on terrorism while Democrats are seeking to make that policy an issue in the midterm elections.
It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.”
Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam’s government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.
Well, it’s not a whole report, but it’ll do for the moment. It says that Iraq was not a threat to us and was not aligned with the Terrorists. I wonder if Mr. Bush will now see why, as he said last week on ABC News, ‘the hardest part of my job is connecting the dots between the War on Terror and the War in Iraq.’ It’s hard because it’s not true. Whatever abstract reason he cooks up for making this connection, it’s a fantasy in his mind. It is not based on the truth about the world.
"The War in Iraq and the War on Terrorism are not the same thing!"
by: 1boringoldman (2002-2006)
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