Exhaustive review sponsored by the Pentagon finds NO link between Saddam, al Qaida

dapperdan said

You're absolutely right, DD.

I've read the arguments going back and forth on the board, and frankly I'm out of my league in that debate, but I enjoy reading the back and forth.

I will say, that "No operational link" looks to be a very narrow, military definition; whereas "no link" appears to me to be a political deception perpetrated by the media, with the intention to distort reality. An attempt to paint Saddam as a relative innocent, unjustly attacked by the Bush Administration. Saddam=relative innocent, Bush Administration=unjust aggressors.

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Are you kidding?

The idea is simply that the administration intentionally insinuated, to put it mildly, a link between Saddam and 9/11. He was equated with Bin Laden to justify an attack on Iraq.

The point is our government lied repeatedly.

It has nothing to do with Saddam being in "innocent" in general terms. He can be a ruthless dictator and still be innocent of the specific charges that he was co-conspirator in the 9/11 attack.

You can't go around the world making war on every country where you find the government distasteful.

Please, God, get this nation past this self-righteousness.