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Title: Zakaria Destroys Rumsfeld’s Iraq War Talking Points
Source:
RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/ ... felds-iraq-war-talking-points/
Published: Sep 12, 2011
Author: DAVID EDWARDS
Post Date: 2011-09-12 15:47:38 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4292
Comments: 6
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." "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. W
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
"Yeah, that's right," Bush agreed. "So what?" Exactly. So what? Only liberals that like revisionist history claim Iraq was 'justified' by 9/11 via the Bush administration.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Why is the Iraq war justified?
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.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
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?"
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Indeed, nobody cares about rehashing a debate from eight years ago when they can't find a job.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
You have no issue with the lies that Dumb Dumb told... That strikes right at the heart of why no one takes you seriously, Boofer.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
In 2008, President George W. Bush admitted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that al Qaeda had not been Iraq before the invasion.
#2. To: Badeye (#1)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
#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.
#5. To: Mad Dog (#4)
#6. To: Badeye (#1)
Exactly. So what?
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
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