PatPatriot
New member
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2000
- Messages
- 15,635
- Reaction score
- 4
[size=+1]As Bill Clinton Once Said . . . there were links between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda[/size]
<SMALL>Wall Street Journal ^ | October 27, 2004 | STEPHEN F. HAYES</SMALL>
Well, it appears that Messrs. Clinton and Bush have [much] in common.... Both have warned -- Mr. Clinton first, of course -- that the nexus between rogue states like Iraq and terrorists like al Qaeda poses the greatest threat to America. On this point, in fact, Mr. Clinton has much more in common with Mr. Bush than he does with John Kerry.
According to 9/11 Commission co-chairman Thomas Kean, Mr. Clinton believed with "absolute certainty" that Iraq provided al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction expertise and technology in the 1990s. He believed it as president when he ordered the destruction of the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, and he believes it now.... Sandy Berger and others -- told us with absolute certainty that there were chemical weapons of mass destruction at that factory and that's why we sent missiles."
...Under press scrutiny, the Clinton administration vigorously defended the strikes: "Sudan's support for terrorism, their connections with Iraq on VX... and Sudan's leadership support for Osama bin Laden."....
That journalists also seem to have forgotten that the Clinton people made the Iraqi connection is strange. The central question of the presidential campaign is this: Was the Iraq war a diversion from the war on terror, as John Kerry claims, or the central front of the war on terror, as George W. Bush contends? Recent intelligence that Iraqi scientists provided WMD expertise to al Qaeda -- especially if that intelligence led to military action -- seems highly relevant. So who is right? Did Iraq provide al Qaeda with WMD technology and expertise, as Bill Clinton claimed in the late 1990s and continues to believe today? Or is John Kerry correct when he claims, as he did last week in Dayton, Ohio, that Iraq "had nothing to do with al Qaeda?"....
<SMALL>Wall Street Journal ^ | October 27, 2004 | STEPHEN F. HAYES</SMALL>
Well, it appears that Messrs. Clinton and Bush have [much] in common.... Both have warned -- Mr. Clinton first, of course -- that the nexus between rogue states like Iraq and terrorists like al Qaeda poses the greatest threat to America. On this point, in fact, Mr. Clinton has much more in common with Mr. Bush than he does with John Kerry.
According to 9/11 Commission co-chairman Thomas Kean, Mr. Clinton believed with "absolute certainty" that Iraq provided al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction expertise and technology in the 1990s. He believed it as president when he ordered the destruction of the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, and he believes it now.... Sandy Berger and others -- told us with absolute certainty that there were chemical weapons of mass destruction at that factory and that's why we sent missiles."
...Under press scrutiny, the Clinton administration vigorously defended the strikes: "Sudan's support for terrorism, their connections with Iraq on VX... and Sudan's leadership support for Osama bin Laden."....
That journalists also seem to have forgotten that the Clinton people made the Iraqi connection is strange. The central question of the presidential campaign is this: Was the Iraq war a diversion from the war on terror, as John Kerry claims, or the central front of the war on terror, as George W. Bush contends? Recent intelligence that Iraqi scientists provided WMD expertise to al Qaeda -- especially if that intelligence led to military action -- seems highly relevant. So who is right? Did Iraq provide al Qaeda with WMD technology and expertise, as Bill Clinton claimed in the late 1990s and continues to believe today? Or is John Kerry correct when he claims, as he did last week in Dayton, Ohio, that Iraq "had nothing to do with al Qaeda?"....
arty: :toast: You guys might find you have something in common -the crack you smoke in Austin Doc probably costs about the same as the crack Patriot buys in Boston!:lolBIG:
