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Bush Wars Title: Zakaria Destroys Rumsfeld’s Iraq War Talking Points Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld isn't letting go of his talking points that support the U.S. invasion of Iraq following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Exactly 10 years after those attacks, Rumsfeld suggested to CNN's Fareed Zakaria Sunday that Iraq had been "hospitable" to al Qaeda before the U.S. invaded the country. "There's no question that al Qaeda and Zarqawi and people were in Iraq," Rumsfeld argued. "They aggregated there." "If we hadn't invaded, they wouldn't have been there," Zakaria pointed out.
"We don't know that," Rumsfeld insisted. "You don't know that. I don't know that." "But they went in to fight us. So since we weren't there, why would they have gone into Iraq?" Zakaria countered. "Why have they gone into Yemen and Somalia?" Rumsfeld asked. "Why do al Qaeda go anywhere? They go where it's hospitable." GA_googleFillSlot("Raw_Embedded_300"); "Right, and Iraq hadn't been hospitable," Zakaria said. A Department of Defense Inspector General report declassified in 2007 debunked claims that Pentagon official Douglas Feith had made to bolster the Bush administration case for war, that there was a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
"The Feith office alternative intelligence assessments concluded that Iraq and al Qaeda were cooperating and had a 'mature, symbiotic' relationship, a view that was not supported by the available intelligence, and was contrary to the consensus view of the Intelligence Community," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said in a statement. In fact, George Piro, the former FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein, confirmed to CBS News that the Iraqi dictator had viewed Osama bin Laden as a threat. In 2008, President George W. Bush admitted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that al Qaeda had not been Iraq before the invasion. "Yeah, that's right," Bush agreed. "So what?" Watch this video from CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, broadcast Sept. 11, 2011.
WSubscribe to *War Criminals On Parade*Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5. In 2008, President George W. Bush admitted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that al Qaeda had not been Iraq before the invasion. Exactly. So what? Only liberals that like revisionist history claim Iraq was 'justified' by 9/11 via the Bush administration.
#2. To: Badeye (#1) Why is the Iraq war justified?
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2) Sorry Fred, no sense having old argument here. The real reason this is being brought up is pretty clear in my view. For liberals, ANYTHING is preferable to talking about Owe-bama's failures. Anything.
#4. To: Badeye, remora boy (#3) Sorry Fred, no sense having old argument here. The real reason this is being brought up is pretty clear in my view. For liberals, ANYTHING is preferable to talking about Owe-bama's failures. EXACTOMUNDO! AND it isn't going to work.
THIS economy is OWNED by the libTURDS, it's 100% THEIRS and their wee little failed man child messiah "king" obammy's. The question for EVERY American is; "are you, or are YOU not better off since the messiah "king" obammy was immaculated?"
#5. To: Mad Dog (#4) Indeed, nobody cares about rehashing a debate from eight years ago when they can't find a job.
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